Christie is but one tool in US DoEd’s public school wrecking crew’s tool box. Here’s one of the best reads on public school privatization schemes by an educator from LA- hotbed of the public education-reform fraud: The Confederacy of Reformers http://crazycrawfish.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/a-confederacy-of-reformers/

This temporary reprieve will give Obama et al., time to soften up the base with the standard propagandistic template: “This isn’t the best deal but given the crazy Republicans we must do something, yadda, yadda.

Time to threaten every Dem with a primary challenge.

Glen ford exposed the extent of Corey’s history of selling public assets to the plutocrats in this revealing presentation. there’s something deeply disturbing when Booker uses the impoverished circumstances of his people in Newark to sell off their schools to billionaires. Booker is so confident of his wonderfulness to realize the robber baron class holds him in deep contempt.

http://blackagendareport.com/content/glen-ford-corporate-assault-public-education.

Also,too, “longer school day” means working extra hours for free.

In place of the AM talking heads excrement, try this:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/chris-hedges-hear-the-99-roar.html

Ugh. Sundaymorning cesspool.

Gotta go with #5. It captures the iconic Breitbart bellowing from the hinterlands. Although #9 made me lol.

Zero mandates in race to the top,obama’s bribe to starving states, have empiracle support for improving education. check out the education privatization money launderers in Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) and the propagandists in CAP who print garbage for media consumption. Rahmbo’s disaster capitalism is the blueprint Arne imposed in Chicago http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/
For more details on Obama’s sale of our public schools to Wall St read:
http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Romberry,
I think you’re on to the game. The day before Pelosie’s statement, she & Boner (aka,Boehner) met with Obama in the WH to “talk about the debt ceiling.” Boner also came out with his debt ceiling statement that raising it should come from spending cuts & tax reform.

The president & Boner can play good cop/bad cop in July by pretending to fight over the debt ceiling. After the election, they’ll come to a “compromise”. Wanna bet Social Security “reform” is part of the gradn plan?

I don’t believe anything they say publicly.

Bawahahahahah! Emanuel is surely dickless and he’s soooooo happy bulling Illinois teachers into subsidizing his banksters with their pension money. I guess dicklessness has it’s advantages.

http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2012/05/rahm-is-soooo-happy.html

Coaches do not shower with their athletes.

Torture. I’d rather cut myself than tune in to these blowhards. (excluding Chris Hayes)

Damon understands exactly what is going on in Obama & Duncan’s edu-movement (I will not call it reform as none of Arne’s RttTop bribe has any scientific evidence to support educational efficacy).

Duncan is a tool for corporate take-over of the last public service sector not tied to the corrupt public/private “partnership” model that has given us: the military industrial complex, the health care system, the energy and power supply companies, and many other sub-sets of services the population depends on.

Further, the Dems have their own Corporate think-tank that spews fake science to convince the public of educational changes that have NO basis in improving outcomes for children. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) publishes educational junk science:

AND, they buy legislators with checks written directly to them:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/political_stile/94802689_Well-off_education_PAC_eyes_Democrats_.html

“I haven’t identified our top 10 legislators who are for us and our top 10 legislators who are being detrimental,” said Kathleen Nugent, the group’s New Jersey director…
The national group now has chapters is six states and is stacked with executives of hedge funds — Anchorage Capital Partners ($8 billion under management), Greenlight Capital ($6.8 billion) and Pershing Square Capital Management ($5.5 billion).”

Damon understands exactly what is going on in Obama & Duncan’s movement (I will not call it reform as none of Arne’s RttTop bribe has any scientific evidence to support educational efficacy).

Duncan is simply a tool for corporate take-over of the last public service sector not tied to the corrupt public/private “partnership” model that has given us the military industrial complex, the health care system, the energy and power supply sector, and many other sub-sets of services the population depends on.

The Dems have their own Corporate think-tank that spews fake science to convince the public of educational changes that have NO basis in improving outcomes for children. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) publishes educational junk science

AND, they buy legislators with checks written directly to them:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/political_stile/94802689_Well-off_education_PAC_eyes_Democrats_.html

“I haven’t identified our top 10 legislators who are for us and our top 10 legislators who are being detrimental,” said Kathleen Nugent, the group’s New Jersey director…
The national group now has chapters is six states and is stacked with executives of hedge funds — Anchorage Capital Partners ($8 billion under management), Greenlight Capital ($6.8 billion) and Pershing Square Capital Management ($5.5 billion).”

One more thing about Duncan and his idea of school reform.
New York’s Democratic Governor, Andrew Cuomo and Independent NYC Michael Bloomberg agree that untested, unproven, excessive testing experiments on kids are fine provided they are profitable for their cronies.

Here is one of the clearest examples of our pols corrupt, bipartisan fealty to wall street and the financial industry:

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-super-mugging-ny-state.html