| Diane Ravitch asks important questions about the California election: "Think of having a charter advocate running the State Department of Education. Their guy!! Do the voters know about this? Are they informed? Will they allow the billionaires to buy this job? Marshall Tuck, running against educator Tom Torlakson, got a late infusion of huge campaign contributions. Former Mayor Michael Blomberg sent $250,000. Eli Broad sent two checks totaling $1,000,000. Alice Walton of the Walmart family sent two gifts totaling $450,000. Carrie Penner (of the same Walton family) sent $500,000. Doris Fisher of the family that owns The Gap sent two gifts totaling $950,000. There are many other very large contributions, plus earlier contributions made by many of the same people. The 'reformers' really, really, really want to elect Tuck." California is the target for the expansion of privatization |
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