Tony Blair's back and working with Arne Duncan and ed "reformers".

[madfloridian]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Edythe Broad, Eli Broad and U.S. Sec. of Education Arne Duncan, left to right, pose at the 2014 Broad Prize for Urban Education in New York on Sept. 22.

School superintendents trained at the Broad Academy are a unique bunch. My mind at once went to John Deasy who recently resigned from Los Angeles schools because of "poor relations with teachers and two back-to-back technology debacles."

More about Broad Academy superintendents. When they are hired by a school system they are almost mercilessly in pushing teachers in a punitive way, in pushing reforms much harder than the other superintendents.

How Eli Broad alumni are greatly involved in the corporate takeover of education.

Eli Broad's Superintendents Academy is paying big dividends for the corporate takeover of American education and the crushing of the teaching profession. In Kansas City a plan developed by Broad's lawyers and Broad Alum, John Covington, will close half of Kansas City Schools with large numbers of corporate charter replacements.

....Detroit Schools Ask Why Manager Takes Money From Charter Groups

- The Detroit Board of Education and community groups say private foundations are paying the head of the city's ailing public school system $145,000 a year in exchange for his support of charter schools - a glaring conflict of interest. The board says that Robert Bobb, emergency financial manager of Detroit Public Schools, is violating Michigan laws and its constitution by accepting the privately funded portion of his $425,000 annual salary.

Bobb is the only defendant in the complaint in Wayne County Court, Detroit. The board, two community groups and 26 people say the Los Angeles-based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which "aggressively promotes the spread of charter schools nationwide," pays Bobb $56,000, with the remaining $89,000 coming from "undisclosed private sources. Last year Bobb made $84,000 in such "supplemental compensation."

Here are more pages of Broad Superintendents alumni. You might recognize your district's leader. Too many have already had to resign, and they are usually moved to another district quickly.

Broad Academy Network

Sorry to see Blair back. I will always associate him with the push to the Iraq invasion. And I always remember when the DLC lovingly called all the Iraq War supporters Blair Democrats. So now he's back in world of education.

Goody.

[Prophet 451]

1. Why aren't you at The Hague, Tony?

Fuck Blair. I never liked him. He led the Labour party massively to the right, started the privatization of the NHS and lied us into an unnecessary war based on information all of us knew was bollocks. Smarmy, pushy little egomaniac should be in jail.

[madfloridian]

3. Remember that movie made about Blair?

I think it was this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Special_Relationship_%28film%29

Now whenever I see Michael Sheen on screen I think Blair.

[QED]

9. I always think of this video of Blair and W

[Enthusiast]

12. He was a poser. A fake Labour Party head. This appears to be a trend both here and abroad.

[madfloridian]

17. Like your sig picture.

[Enthusiast]

18. Thank you.

I appropriated it from someone on DU.

[hatrack]

2. Fresh from his bravura performance handling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, I see . . .

[madfloridian]

5. Did not keep up with that.

Gather he didn't do too well?

[hatrack]

11. He was appointed seven years ago, and we know how that's gone . . .

But he does have an "Initiative For The Palestinian Economy", along with other lovely web pages.



http://www.quartetrep.org/quartet/

[WinkyDink]

4. Tony Blair doesn't get out of bed for less than a million dollars, so that tells you something.

[Starry Messenger]

6. So sick of these assholes.

[madfloridian]

7. .....

Me too.

[LWolf]

14. If only they weren't welcome

in any Democratic administration.

[suffragette]

8. Blair, ever the eager corporatist

[Octafish]

10. Like Carlyle Group did for the MIC.

Broad and his own John Major will do to public education via inside connections and crony capitslism.

Doubleplus good.

[madfloridian]

16. Yep. Reforming is international now.

[Generic Other]

13. Those million dollar mansions

4 million pounds.

"It’s a Grade I-listed mansion based in South Pavilion, Wotton Underwood, Bucks. The seven-bedroom house, which dates from 1704, comes with a four-bedroom outbuilding conversion, a domed weather vane tower and ornamental gardens. Other features include, a drawing room, ornamental gardens and two paddocks. South Pavilion will act as an out-of-town retreat from the Blairs’ Georgian town house in Connaught Square, London, which they bought in 2004 for £3.5 million. Well, obviously, you’re not anyone if you don’t have get away pad. Ya’ know, just in case you get bored of your primary residency. " http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/tony-blairs-4million-stately-home/

Also Cherie Blair bought a 3.6 million pound place for her son's wedding. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467474/Tony-Blairs-son-Euan-buys-3-6m-6-bedroom-Georgian-townhouse.html

[madfloridian]

15. Wow. He and family doing quite well I'd say.

That's amazing info. Thanks.

Now I wonder if he's getting the big bucks from someone in the ed reform movement. Hmmm...

Most I know think that award from the Broad foundation is really for school systems that do things their way. And the Orlando super is a Broad super of course. Don't know about the GA one.