Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education--Labor Fest Panel Video
"Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education: Education, Privatization, Bill Gates, Broad, KIPP, Pearson, EdWest And The Gulen Schools.
A massive national and international organized plan to privatize education has been implemented over several decades. Billionaires, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and the Pearson corporation among others, have infiltrated hundreds of governmental bodies including school boards, city councils and our local, state and regional governments. They seek to turn our education system into a profit center worth tens of billions of dollars. This also includes the Gulen Islamic cult led by Imam Fethullah Gulen, which runs the largest chain of charters in the United States funded by public money. We will also look at the criminal conflicts that have allowed politicians to personally benefit from using their public positions to profit from their votes and actions. This forum will look at how this has come about, who did it, how it is affecting us and who is profiting from it at the cost of public education and finally how to stop this attack on our public education system.
Speakers:
Madeline Mueller, Professor SF City College, AFT2121
Susan Miesenhelder, CFA CSU Longbeach
http://www.calfac.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/for_profit_csu_-_fina...
Kathleen Carroll, Lawyer and Whistleblower At Commission On Teacher Credentialing
Bruce Neuberger, AFT 4681 San Mateo Adult School
Sharon Higgins, Researcher and Blogger On Charters, Parents Across America
http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/
Danny Weil, Journalist and author on charters & privatization
For further information go to:
Sponsored By United Public Workers For Action www.upwa.info"
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Florida has a different set of problems.
Thanks for posting, my reply was a kick but also a reminder in my "my posts" list to get back to this and review more closely what you provided.
thanks!
Totally agree about Prop 13.
I look forward to anything you have to say about the video. I enjoyed it, but like I said downthread, not everyone was totally on-point--there's some drifting. I don't want to editorialize too much before people get a chance to see it though.
From what I remember, most of it is quite good--a couple of folks were kind of all over the map. I had a sinus headache that day though, so I have to review it too, to see if my notes made any sense. 
She brought a packet that CFA put out, so at least there is some organized push-back. It was overall a pretty bleak presentation.
I get overwhelmed by it all too. And everywhere there seems to be this fatalistic death-cult attitude that corporations are in charge of everything anyway, so why not just let them have their way with education. It's just inevitable, etc. That, to me, is the biggest hurdle.
Thank you for sharing it around! I should post it on a few FB groups too, thanks for the reminder. School starts today, wish me luck!
