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Wed Aug 8, 2012, 03:09 PM Aug 2012

Public School Privatizers Bare Their Greedy Faces Without Shame



Privatizers Bare Their Faces Without Shame
by dianerav

Last week we saw a report from Reuters about the conference for equity investors held at the posh University Club in Manhattan.

And we learned there about the many new frontiers for making a buck by jumping into the public education marketplace.

Here is another article from the same conference, this one in Education Week, reporting with a straight face that the equity investors see new opportunities to make money when the new national tests inevitably produce low scores.

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