"The Destroy Public Education Movement has made extraordinary gains Atlanta, which has fallen into the clutches of the DPE because of Teach for America’s success in electing its alumni to the school board, which hired a superintendent commited to the DPE agenda. Atlanta's Ed Johnson compared what is happening to a “comprador regime” serving today’s neocolonialists. In the 19th century, a comprador was a native servant doing the bidding of his European masters; the new compradors are doing the bidding of billionaires privatizing public education. ”Chalkbeat reported that Atlanta is one of 7 US cities The City Fund has targeted for the portfolio district governance model. The city fund was founded in 2018 by two billionaires, John Arnold the former Enron executive who did not go to prison and Reed Hastings the founder and CEO of Netflix."
At dianeravitch.net
