(This Sunday in SF) Who is Behind Privatization of Public Education?
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http://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012schedule.htm#29July 29 (Sunday) 10:00 AM (Free) 518 Valencia - near 16th St., SF
Who is Behind Privatization of Public Education?
Education, Privatization, Bill Gates, Broad, KIPP, Pearson And The Gulen Schools
A massive national and international organized plan to privatize education has been implemented over several decades. Billionaires, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and the Pearson corporation among others, have infiltrated hundreds of governmental bodies including school boards, city councils and our local, state and regional governments. They seek to turn our education system into a profit center worth tens of billions of dollars. This also includes the Gulen Islamic cult led by Imam Fethullah Gulen, which runs the largest chain of charters in the United States funded by public money. We will also look at the criminal conflicts that have allowed politicians to personally benefit from using their public positions to profit from their votes and actions. This forum will look at how this has come about, who did it, how it is affecting us and who is profiting from it at the cost of public education and finally how to stop this attack on our public education system.
Speakers:
Madeline Mueller, Professor SF City College, AFT2121
Susan Miesenhouse, CFA CSU Longbeach
Kathleen Carroll, Lawyer and Whistleblower At Commission On Teacher Credentialing
Bruce Neuberger, AFT 4681 San Mateo Adult School
Sharon Higgins, Researcher and Blogger On Charters, Parents Across America
Sponsored By United Public Workers For Action
www.upwa.info
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Sharon Higgins is the blogger of "Perimeter Primate", the rest of the speakers look cool too. I'm going to try to make this, I thought I'd post it for anyone else interested and in the area.
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I'm not sure I'll be able to make it, but I'm making a note of it just in case! 
I love this city 
Thank you for the link, I'll check it out. Welcome! 
Danny Weil was also on the panel today, which was an unexpected treat. I've posted articles of his here before, and others have too. http://www.democraticunderground.com/searchresults.html?q=danny+weil&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&sa=Search!&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en
Danny Weil
Sharon Higgins, sitting between Bruce Neuberger and Kathleen Carroll
It was interesting and covered a lot of the ground we talk about here, with the Axis of Evil, Broad, Gates, Walton, they talked about Gulen, Pearson, corporate influence in public elementary, higher ed and online education. They filmed the panel, so when the video goes up I'll post it here.
For those who are unfamiliar with Sharon's work on Gulen Schools, start here: http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2012/03/gulen-charter-school-timeline.html
