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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWalmart is funding Rahm's public hearings on closing Chicago schools: $500 million.
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/31/walton-funds-school-closing-hearing-in-chicago/District officials have said they don’t want to link the volatile issue of school closings with the equally volatile issue of charter school openings. But a major pro-charter foundation is providing financial backing for the current crop of school closing meetings taking place around the city this month.
The district is now engaged in a community engagement process intended to provide feedback to the district as it contemplates what schools to close. That process is being underwritten by the Walton Family Foundation (a foundation run by the founders of Wal-Mart). The Walton Foundation has fueled the expansion of charter schools across the country and, in January, announced that CPS was the largest recipient of charter school grants in the country.
http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/notebook/2013/01/30/20778/record-walton-foundation-funds-community-engagement#.UQntPuFaWEo.twitter
The scuttlebutt on the net says the hearings are 'managed' by dividing the audience into small groups & paying someone to take their statments. which go into the round file.
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Ernesto
(5,077 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Notice to DUers,this is the true Rahm,what's in it for me,oh yes.
KoKo
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Luminous Animal
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hollysmom
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burrowowl
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glinda
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progressoid
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Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)That way, they won't be good for anything but stoop laborers for Walmart.
ReRe
(12,189 posts)Well, there goes Chicago. The father of Disaster Capitalism, Milton Freidman, would be so proud. That's it. Who can come up with another...more appropriate... name for the USA? You know...they make a big deal about all these immigrants coming into our country illegally? What I want to know is how many Americans are LEAVING America illegally or legally?
glinda
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Samantha
(9,314 posts)I am proud to say.
Sam
glinda
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sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)for walmart
mountain grammy
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:04 AM - Edit history (1)
Having already shutdown Main Street, China Inc. -- with the help of slimy pols, like Rahm -- is now completing its work of having us pay to enslave ourselves. Nice work, Rahm.
callous taoboy
(4,785 posts)Our Mal-Wart has always tried to maintain a tie with the school where I teach, giving gift cards for our good behavior drawings, new bikes for those who win the commended performance on the standardized test contest. I have always been suspicious of this.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Walmart certainly has the resources to move into the privatized education sector in a big way, if they were allowed to do so.
callous taoboy
(4,785 posts)that were the businesses that got run out when Mal-Wart opened and turn them into Wal-Schools.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Snarkoleptic
(6,235 posts)Must see teevee
HiPointDem
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Initech
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MessiahRp
(5,405 posts)The fact that Obama selected him as his COS, has made me question his judgment from day one.
Rahm's the guy who railroaded progressives out of primaries and recruited rich Republicans to run as Democrats because it was an easier pathway to election.
Fuck him.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Even when he installed himself in the mayor's office...I don't know whatever happened to those 3-4 Chicago-area DUers (won't name names) who used to worship the ground Rahm walked on...