Occupy SF to Protest Jeb Bush's Conference at Palace Hotel Today

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Folks involved in the rapidly-growing Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street movements will converge on the Palace Hotel today. Why? ... Because Florida Governor Jeb Bush and media ghoul Rupert Murdoch will fly over on their brooms to take part in the Foundation for Excellence in Education conference, a nonprofit headed by Bush.

While the foundation's vague agenda claims it's all for "higher standards, "data-driven accountability," and "effective teaching," Occupy SF plan to protest their "the selling of public education." (One session at the conference, as we pointed out on Wednesday, is titled “Don’t Let a Financial Crisis Go To Waste.") ...

http://sfist.com/2011/10/13/occupy_sf_protest_jeb_bushs_confere.php

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1. Follow up

Protest greets conservative education summit in SF

Jill Tucker,Vivian Ho, Chronicle Staff Writers

Friday, October 14, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- Activists with the Occupy movement joined forces with teachers union members outside a San Francisco hotel Thursday to protest an education conference promoting charter schools, teacher pay for performance and more digital instruction in schools.

Big names in the country's conservative education reform movement were featured at the two-day conference, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and media baron Rupert Murdoch.

Sponsored by the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a nonprofit headed by Bush, the summit focused on seniority-based teacher compensation and the ineffectiveness of school boards while promoting the use of classroom technology to reduce labor costs and boost student learning.

About 100 protesters, mostly teachers, picketed outside the Palace Hotel on New Montgomery Street, where about 750 people were participating in the sold-out education summit.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/13/BA831LH9JC.DTL

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2. Wouldn't a school be a more appropriate venue, if they were really interested?