Reply #78: you can knock it off....it's not working, microrhetoro. it's very clear what the

[Gabi Hayes]

agenda is here, and this lawsuit is an important part of it

you won't admit it, because it's central to your disingenuous case that groups like TFA and Green Dot schools have no other agenda than 'teaching the children'

as for Green Dot Schools, begun by another greedy crook, and defended by the very same John Rogers cited in your huffpo article, populated by various right wing astroturf groups, it's yet another example of the so-called not for profit schools being a front for corporatatos whose goal is to get their hands in one of the biggest public cookie jars left that haven't been already decimated by wall street crooks and conmen

here's the story on Green Dot. the most interesting part is in one of the comments, from which I'll quote. and the story itself, like your posts, and OP, leaves out the most salient point>>>that the founder stepped down because he was caught with his hand in the school's cookie jar, like MANY other charter-type school scammers:

by Robert D. Skeels
To be sure, Steve Barr lost his position because of the missing $51K scandal, his embarrassing falling out with Michele Rhee during Green Dot's negotiations in D.C., and his constant wrangling with the one man at Green Dot who is greedier than he is -- Marco Petruzzi. The money grubbing Green Dot Public Schools machine would have discarded the Silverlake snake oil salesman completely, except their decade long public relations campaign portraying Steve Barr as the "friendly face" of the neoliberal dismantling of public education by corporate interests has been so successful, it would have harmed the corporate charter-voucher establishment in the long run. In the interest of "market share" Green Dot kept Barr on to serve as the corporate spokesperson for the sycophantic right wing business press and other corporate sociopaths to dote on him while they eliminate the last vestiges of the public commons, and give themselves bailout financed bonuses.

Steve Barr's corporate charter-voucher establishment in Los Angeles, like all EMO/CMO factory schools with their unelected and unaccountable boards, have been a paradigm of parent and community disenfranchisement.

The recent definitive studies demonstrating both charter school racism http://bit.ly/8RRuaZ

and CMO charter-voucher school discrimination and exclusivity toward children with special needs

http://bit.ly/5LHf2j

are further proof that the decades long failed experiment of the corporate CMO supporters must end.


http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/11/20/green-dot-public-schools-chairman-steve-barr-steps/?c=10303