that Rahm Emanuel received 12 MILLION in campaign contributions from charter-school advocacy groups. I wonder how many “mainstream” news oulets have mentioned that fact?
But Paul Street of Z Communications does via truthout.com. It’s a great piece, extremely informative.
He rightly decries “The sadistic game of blaming and shaming teachers for poor kids’ test scores,” which is of course “very useful for the politics and public relations of de-unionization and privatization, masquerading as ‘school reform.'”