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- 02-04-2011
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Blog by Brian Jones/Huffington Post
Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein recently compared teacher pensions to a Ponzi scheme, siphoning precious money from students. "Children currently in our schools," Klein wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "as well as future students, will be high among those paying the price." And yet, after only eight years of work, and just before he published the above critique, Klein cashed in his own pension: $33,000 a year for the rest of his life. Hypocrisy, thy name is Joel. But in truth, the former chancellor is just a servant. Today's education "reform" really originates with a group of billionaires. Bill Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton Family (owners of Wal-Mart) have decided that the number of zeroes in their bank accounts qualifies them to remake the nation's schools in their own image. (more...)
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