Fresh From Giving Prison Abuser Andrew Cuomo An Award, National Urban League Doubles Down On Testing

You just can't make this stuff up.

Self-appointed de Blasio watchdog Hakeem Jeffries gave Governor Andrew Cuomo an award from the National Urban League for his work on criminal justice reform:

.@RepJeffries on behalf of @NatUrbanLeague presents award to @NYGovCuomo for leadership in criminal justice reform. pic.twitter.com/WuOeMxsdYI

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) August 10, 2015

A day later, the NY Times connected criminal justice reformer Andrew Cuomo to a prison abuse scandal at Clinton Correctional Facility that saw 60+ prisoners allege they had been beaten, choked, threatened with waterboarding and otherwise tortured by corrections officers.

Cuomo himself set off the beatings by "staring down" a prisoner who was housed next to the cell of one of the escaped prisoners the state spent weeks trying to track down - this prisoner was beaten by guards hours after Cuomo left the prison, choked and threatened with waterboarding if he didn't tell what he knew about the prison escape.

Ironically, no other prisoners have been implicated in the prison escape - only prison employees have.

So far politicians in New York, included self-appointed de Blasio watchdog Jeffries, have stayed silent on the Cuomo prison abuse scandal, as have civil rights organizations like the National Urban League.

It seems criticizing Andrew Cuomo for overseeing systemic prison abuse isn't fashionable among the civil rights orgs, though coming down on the side of standardized testing is - the National Urban League couldn't let the release of the Common Core test scores in New York go without a statement:

In the newly released statistics, education officials framed the opt-out movement as more prevalent in white middle- and upper-middle-class districts, with Long Island a particular hot spot. In New York City, the refusal rate was less than 2 percent. Many civil rights groups have expressed concern about the movement, saying it risks eroding the integrity of data necessary to ensure that all students, especially those from disadvantaged communities, are being educated in decent schools.

“As much as people may not like testing, it’s the only way available for us to document and to hold schools and school districts accountable,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League. “We can’t close the achievement gap unless we know what it is and where it is and how big it is.”

The National Urban League is squarely on the pro-testing Gates Foundation payroll, having taken millions from Gates, so it's not a surprise that they came out yesterday to back testing.

I do think it says a lot about the soul of an organization like the National Urban League that it could give an award to Andrew Cuomo for criminal justice reform, ignore a prison abuse scandal that is reported upon by the NY Times a day later with Cuomo at the epicenter of it, then hail standardized testing a day after that.

Harris Lirtzman left this comment on another post I wrote about the Dannemora prison abuse scandal and the silence emanating from criminal justice reform advocates like Hakeem Jeffries and the National Urban League that puts some perspective on things:

Let us never forget that Dennis Walcott was President of the New York City Chapter of the National Urban League for many years before becoming Michael Bloomberg's Deputy Mayor for Education and then Schools Chancellor.

Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle fall ever so neatly into place that there's no need for conspiracy theories or paranoia. It just is what it appears to be and nobody feels the need to deny any of it.

This all isn't "hiding in plain sight." It's right there in plain sight for anyone with a bit of intelligence and memory to see.

Indeed - just something to think about the next time you see or hear something from a civil rights organization like the National Urban League.

Their civil rights advocacy comes with a price tag that says "For Sale" on it - something Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo know very well.

That's why they were happy to make a statement backing the Endless Testing regime yesterday while ignoring a prison abuse scandal that saw CIA torture tactics introduced in Governor Cuomo's Department of Corrections.

Allegations Of Racial Discrimination In Hillsborough Schools Under MaryEllen Elia's Leadership

Here's another item on MaryEllen Elia's track record as superintendent of the Hillsborough school district:

Marilyn Williams, a retired teacher and Tampa activist, alleges that the Hillsborough County School District discriminates against black students by subjecting them to harsher penalties than white students. She also claims students in lower-income schools, which are predominantly black, are denied access to experienced teachers.

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Frustration. Disappointment. Anger.

These words swing through Marilyn Williams' mind whenever she thinks about how black students are treated in the district.

That's why she filed the complaint.

After earning a master's degree in conflict resolution and teaching in different schools outside the state, Williams moved to Florida in 1999. She spent a few years working with the local NAACP, which she said allowed her to gather the information necessary to challenge the system.

After a while, Williams started noticing small things. Black children who had to earn a teacher's trust. Counselors who weren't as patient. An increase in school resource officers and violent incidents.

Then she looked at the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores in Hillsborough County broken down by race. And she was astounded.

In 2013, 37 percent of black students in the third grade scored at or above the minimum achievement level for reading. That number dropped to 34 percent for eighth-graders and 29 percent for 10th-graders.

"Unless one is willing to accept the belief that black students are intellectually inferior ... then one must question why the district has consistently had poor academic performance outcomes for black students," Williams wrote in her complaint.

Williams also included a report from the Advancement Project that suggested harsh policies disproportionately affect students of color. For example, black students comprised 21 percent of the Hillsborough County school population but accounted for 50 percent of out-of-school suspensions during the 2011-12 school year.

"That kind of blew my mind," Williams said. 

Here's the update on that investigation as of February:

A special task force commissioned by Hillsborough County schools is working to address disparities in minority discipline, an issue currently being investigated by the federal Office of Civil Rights.

The Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation last year after a complaint was filed alleging that the district disciplines black and Hispanic males more harshly than their white peers for the same offenses.

District spokesman Steve Hegarty said the district recognizes there are disparities, and is working to try and reduce the gap. The task force that met on Friday is currently reviewing school policies and procedures to make sure they are implemented fairly across racial lines.

MaryEllen Elia will take over as NYSED commissioner in July.

When You See Pro-Testing Statements From Civil Rights Organizations & Leaders, Check Their Gates Foundation Links

Randi Weingarten on twitter:

@HastingsTeacher @lacetothetop - nat'l civil rights grps support annual tests- they r working w/us on curbing the hi -stakes @civilrightsorg
— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) April 11, 2015

It's true that many national civil rights organizations support annual testing, Common Core and other tenets of the corporate education reform agenda.

It's also true that many of them are on the take:

@rweingarten @chiefwally @HastingsTeacher @lacetothetop @civilrightsorg Many of those orgs are on Gates payroll.
— rbe (@perdidostschool) April 12, 2015

@rweingarten @chiefwally @HastingsTeacher @lacetothetop @civilrightsorg Gates has bought off many orgs w/ $$$$.
— rbe (@perdidostschool) April 12, 2015

Whenever you see somebody from one of these national civil rights organizations tossing around the "Testing is a civil right" rhetoric, go to the Gates Foundation website and search to see how much money they're taking from Bill Gates.

Today for example, Michael Lomax, the president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, who has a piece in the NY Daily News claiming that parents who opt their children out state tests are hurting all children but especially children of color:

By opting out, parents do a disservice to all children, not just their own. Without an ample number of test takers, we will lose perspective on how our children are truly doing against the higher bar. This is especially important for students who need a better education the most: children of color, children from low-income families and those who require special education services or are learning English.

This spring, three of my grandchildren who attend public charter schools in Atlanta will take these tougher exams. The exams will tell us if they are meeting rigorous national and global academic standards. If they are not, their parents and I will fight to ensure they get immediate support, so upon high-school graduation, they will be genuinely prepared for our country’s best universities and a globally-competitive workforce.

In the 20th century, we fought for our right to an equal education. Now, 60 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, we are still fighting. Parents who opt out or urge others to do so may mean well, but they are wrong.

No one should be against higher standards or tougher tests. On the contrary, this is exactly what we should be fighting for. We know that the alternative is much worse.

Before I read Lomax's piece in the Daily News, I went on over to the Gates Foundation website and searched for how much money Gates has paid to the United Negro College Fund over the last decade.

It's a lot:

United Negro College Fund, Inc.

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Date: August 1999
Purpose: to support the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Amount: $1,525,380,950
Term: 316
Topic: Scholarships
Regions Served: GLOBAL|NORTH AMERICA
Program: United States
Grantee Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Grantee Website: http://www.uncf.org

Yes, that's over a billion and a half dollars the United Negro College Fund has received from Gates since 1999 to provide scholarships.

That's an awful lot of money, but it's not the only cash the United Negro College Fund has gotten from Gates - here's the rest.

Now it's possible that Michael Lomax, CEO of the United Negro College Fund, would love testing and Common Core without the billion and a half+ in cash his organization has received from the Gates Foundation to fund scholarships.

But getting that kind of help from Gates sure does cut down on the time the organization has to spend fundraising and you can bet neither Lomax nor the United Negro College Fund want to lose that source of funding.

Now I dunno if somebody at the Gates Foundation called in a chit and "suggested" Lomax write his pro-testing screed or if Lomax just decided to be pro-active on his own and do it himself.

But you can bet it's not an accident that a national civil rights organization that is receiving over a billion and a half dollars in cash from the Gates Foundation is pushing an education reform agenda that makes the Gates Foundation happy.

And as I tweeted back to Randi, this is true almost every time I see some national civil rights organization or national civil rights figure pushing the "Testing Is A Civil Right" talking point - they're inevitably on the Gates Foundation payroll.

La Raza?

You bet.

The Leadership Conference?

You bet.

National Urban League.

You bet.

Children Defense Fund?

You bet.

The list goes on - pick a civil rights organization that has signed on to the "Testing Is A Civil Right" movement and you'll almost inevitably see they've taken money from Gates in the past or are currently taking money from Gates now.

Not every organization is getting the kind of cash the United Negro College Fund is getting from Gates, but donations are donations and every dollar that comes to these organizations from Gates is one less dollar they have to raise somewhere else.

And again, it's possible some of these organizations would happily push the "Testing Is A Civil Right" movement without the Gates Foundation payola, but you can bet receiving the Gates cash helps grease the wheels on that movement.

Randi Weingarten loves to trot out the excuse that national civil rights organizations are backing yearly standardized tests every time she is challenged on twitter for the AFT's support of yearly standardized tests, but as you can see from this post, that excuse is deceptive since so many of these organizations are taking money from the pro-testing/pro-Common Core Gates Foundation.

And in fact, Randi and the AFT have been on the Gates payroll in the past, so she knows very well just how the Gates cash influences policy support.

The next time you see a civil rights organization or leader trotting out the "Testing Is A Civil Right" rhetoric, check them at the Gates Foundation website and see just how much payola they're taking.

And the next time you see AFT President Randi Weingarten defending her own support of yearly standardized testing by pointing out the national civil rights organizations who also support yearly standardized testing, challenge her on it by pointing out the common denominator in all that support - the Gates Foundation cash.

Eva Moskowitz Compares Charter School Support To #BlackLivesMatter Protests

Methinks this Moskowitz rhetorical flourish is a reach:

EVA MOSKOWITZ ON ‘BLACK LIVES’ AND FAILING SCHOOLS—Capital’s Eliza Shapiro: “In a letter to reporters on Monday, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz compared what she called New York's failing schools ‘crisis’ to protests over the killings of unarmed black men last year. ‘Only two months ago our city was divided by protests over the loss of black lives,’ Moskowitz said in the letter, referring to nationwide protests over the killings of unarmed black men Eric Garner and Michael Brown. ‘I would argue we are losing more black lives by ignoring an epic educational crisis,’ she added… Moskowitz asked reporters to cover Success’ upcoming rally, which she called ‘the largest parent rally ever seen in Albany.’ [PRO] http://bit.ly/1GJDCPt

You see, making sure children of color have schools to attend where they are forcibly marched in silence, suspended for rolling their eyes or not making eye contact with their young white teacher when he/she snaps his/her fingers, treated to nine hours+ a day of mind-numbing test prep and treated like prisoners-in-training is a civil rights issue.

Why Does Testing = Civil Rights?

Stephanie Simon at Politico reported Republicans in the House and the Senate, along with some some Dems, may force a roll-back of the NCLB testing mandates.

But guess who's criticizing talk of the roll-back?

Some "progressive Dems" and some in the "civil rights community," who see testing as a "civil rights issue":

Part of the difficulty in rewriting the law is that the most hated parts of the bill are deeply intertwined with its heralded civil rights provisions: The testing requirements, for example, allowed the government for the first time to spotlight the achievement gaps between white students from higher-income families and their peers when those test results were broken down by race and socioeconomic status. NCLB put a public spotlight on schools and districts that were falling flat when it comes to helping disadvantaged students — and pressed them to improve when no one else would.

Civil rights groups say they were caught a little off guard by the sudden resurgence of debate over this aspect of NCLB. They fear Congress will strip core provisions of the law but hope that the national conversation about race sparked by recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City will help keep a spotlight on civil rights.

Rep. George Miller, the outgoing ranking member of the House education committee and an original author of NCLB, said he anticipates the business and civil rights communities will rein in lawmakers when it comes to keeping the law’s testing and accountability requirements.

“There’s no future for the NEA in being anti-civil rights for poor and minority children. Historically, that’s never been their position,” Miller said.

Have you got that, folks?

George Miller, who has taken gobs of money from for-profit education companies, wraps himself in the veneer of "civil rights champion" as talk of rolling back the federal mandates on testing circles Washington D.C.

 Miller's got a financial stake in keeping the status quo going (especially now as he exits Congress and gets ready to rake in even bigger bucks lobbying - reportedly for Pearson), but he's not the only one rapping the anti-testing movement as essentially racist:

For the civil rights community, collecting annual data allows parents to know how their children are doing, and to an extent, just having the data public can shame schools into doing better.

“We see this as a civil rights bill,” said Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“I am hard-pressed to understand how you give states federal money with no strings attached,” Zirkin said.

Right - because the only way to ensure a quality education for all is to test children every year in every subject and punish districts, schools and educators whose students don't "measure up."

You know, I went back to that iconic speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the March on Washington in 1963 I noticed that there's this little repeated passage:

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - that every child shall be tested in every subject in every grade and their schools and teachers held accountable for those scores.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood and compare Common Core test benchmarks.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom, justice and charters schools that do more to bring about segregation in public education than anything else.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where their teachers will not be judged by the colors of their skin but by their students' scores on their yearly Common Core exams and fired if those scores do not show improvement two years running.

I have a dream today!

See?

Testing and judging schools and teachers by the test scores is a civil rights issue, one that MLK Jr. and some the other great Civil Rights leaders of yore gave their lives to champion.

No wonder Miller, Zirkin and the other "Civil Rights" champions of today continue to promote testing and Common Core as a "civil rights issue."

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Gates Foundation money that ends up funding Zirkin's Leadership Conference (see here) or the for-profit education company money that funded Miller for so long and the Pearson money that may fund him in the future.

NYSED Commissioner John King Says APPR Teacher Evaluations And Common Core Will Bring About Greater Economic Equality

I called this yesterday before NYSED Commissioner King gave his Brown vs Board of Education speech:

Anybody want to bet an APPR artifact that King recycles some of the same boilerplate from the last speech about how the fight for education reform/Common Core is much like the fight for civil rights for this speech today?

Here's Jessica Bakeman on yesterday's speech:

ALBANY—On the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that compelled the nation's schools to integrate, New York education commissioner John King argued that the state's students are still very much segregated by economic status.

During a speech at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King offered education reforms such as the Common Core standards and teacher evaluations as vehicles of greater equality in schools.

“Believe it or not, 60 years after [Brown v. Board of Ed], we remain deeply segregated,” King said. “According to one recent report, New York has the most segregated schools in the country, both racially and economically. Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today—including New York City—with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty. And we know from our history that segregation, whether it’s economic or racial, breeds inequality.”

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King said he respects those who are critics of his policies, and he listens to them patiently, even when the attacks are personal. But he won't be persuaded to retreat from raising standards and implementing education reforms like teacher evaluations, he said.

“Too many of the voices attacking the Common Core have done so with false narratives about the motives and intentions of education reform,” he said. “This isn’t about privatization or federal curriculum or enriching testing companies.

“This is about taking responsibility for educating every single child, no matter what his or her race, background or economic status,” he continued. “What those who resist high standards for all students are really saying is that some kids are just not going to make it, and that’s acceptable.

“But it is not acceptable,” he said. “It violates everything that America stands for. It’s an assault on the values of America, a country based on equality of opportunity.”

In short, Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that every school district in the nation would have an APPR teacher evaluation system tied to Common Core test scores to ensure a day when all men and women will be judged not by the color of their skin by their Common Core test results.

I dunno about you, but I'm getting sick of these reformers wrapping themselves in the civil rights rhetoric.

Get Ready For Another Common Core/Civil Rights Speech From NYSED Commissioner John King

NYSED Commissioner King has already compared himself to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and said the education reform/Common Core fight is much like the fight for civil rights:

Paraphrasing Martin Luther King, Jr., the commissioner said: “In a real sense, this afternoon, we can say that our feet are tired, but our souls are rested.

“Change is hard,” he continued. “It is challenging, and it is tiring, but the goal, their goal, was to advance the cause of civil rights. Our goal is to advance the cause of civil rights through educational justice, through ensuring that all of our students have access to the richest possible instruction that prepares them to succeed when they graduate from high school, in college and careers, and prepares them to be good citizens.

“It will be hard; it will continue to be tiring,” he said. “I am sure there are some sore feet in the room. It will continue to be tiring, but we must remain laser-focused on the outcome we seek for our students.”

Watch here (the Civil Rights talk starts at 17:13).

Here's Dr. King's schedule for today (that's John King, not Martin Luther King Jr.):

At 1 p.m., state Education Commissioner John King delivers speech on anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Rockefeller Institute of Government, 411 State St., Albany.

Anybody want to bet an APPR artifact that King recycles some of the same boilerplate from the last speech about how the fight for education reform/Common Core is much like the fight for civil rights for this speech today?

Eva Moskowitz As Freedom Rider

Good piece by Eliza Shapiro at Capital NY on the use of civil rights rhetoric for education issues by both charter advocates (particularly Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academies) and the de Blasio administration.

Success Academies compared their pro-free charter school rent rally in Albany a few weeks ago to the freedom rides while the de Blasio administration called the universal pre-K drive a civil rights issue.

The consensus from the article?

Success Academies is off base:

Meanwhile, the civil-rights references from the Success network, led by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, has prompted some squirming, even within the charter movement.

One charter school activist I talked to said that the charter movement couldn't accurately compare itself to a movement marked by violence, fire hoses and police dogs, and expressed worry that charter-boosting colleagues, who were clearly winning a public-relations battle against the mayor, were wading into dangerous territory by explicitly invoking civil rights. Another said that the de Blasio administration's use of civil rights language showed that both sides were doing it, but that the analogy between advocacy for students and the fight for civil rights, in both cases, was imperfect.
A spokeswoman for Success declined to comment for this article.

But some city charter advocates privately told Capital they recognize that the rhetoric—particularly the implication that by the de Blasio administration is denying the civil rights of minority students by limiting charters—is a stretch.

Ross Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, says the issue of universal pre-K has a more legitimate claim on the civil rights movement’s legacy than the charter cause does. He pointed to the fact that the mayor’s plan is to make pre-kindergarten available for all the city’s toddlers, while charters are, by definition, only available to some students.

“The claim on the part of the charter movement is much more far-fetched than the claim on the part of the mayor,” Baker said. “Unless you believe that Eva Moskowitz is the new Rosa Parks, which I find hard to credit.”

Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP’s New York State conference, criticized the charter network in loaded terms of her own, referring to the landmark civil rights case that desegregated the nation’s public schools: “Success’ schools have almost turned Brown [vs. Board of Education] on its head,” she said.

Read the whole piece.

Quite frankly, I'm sick of the use of civil rights rhetoric from the corporate education reformers like Moskowitz, Arne Duncan, Joel Klein et al.

And considering how many charter schools are almost wholly segregated by race, it's beyond a stretch to claim they are analogous to the freedom rides, demonstrations, protests and sit-in's of the Civil Rights Era.

Jackie Robinson and Joel Klein

Jackie Robinson stuck up for workers back in 1958:

Unearthed in a college archive, the grainy black-and-white dramatization, made in 1958, tells the story of a bungled purchase order and a boss who wanted the guilty party’s scalp. The company’s managers faced a glaring choice: fire an inept clerk who had it coming anyway, or jeopardize the career of a highly valued executive who, in this instance, was the one who actually slipped up.

After 15 minutes, the action stops and an interfaith panel of New Yorkers assembles like a Greek chorus to debate the issue on camera. Panelists are troubled by the idea of sacrificing the clerk to spare the executive’s career, none more so than the soft-spoken moderator. He asks, “Can a business survive if all the principals are looking out for themselves?”

Fittingly, the words come from a man who keenly understood the meaning of the word “team.” On film, he introduces himself simply as “Jackie Robinson, your host.” But it is the same Jackie Robinson who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and went on to a 10-year career that put him in baseball’s Hall of Fame.

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Robinson hosted the multiracial panel in New York that discussed the work-related issues raised by the fictional Whitmore Plastics company. An all-white panel in Des Moines debated the same episode.

Other episodes, hosted by different moderators, touched on issues involving the disabled, racial understanding and the pressures of modern life.

Religion played a behind-the-scenes role in the overall production. Handouts sent to churches and other discussion groups advised moderators to “lead the participants to see the varied Christian solutions to the problem.”

By the time his segment aired, Robinson was pushing 40, newly retired from baseball and commuting to Manhattan from his home in Stamford, Conn. As vice president for personnel at Chock Full o’ Nuts, he had much say over the firing of rank-and-file workers. Yet he was a self-described softie, in contrast to the fiery determination that was part of his image as a player.

“Instead of cracking down on delinquent workers, Jack’s instinct from the start was to defend them,” Arnold Rampersad, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, wrote in his 1998 book, “Jackie Robinson: A Biography.”

Hints of that protective streak were evident in the panel discussion. “I happen to be with a firm,” Robinson said, without naming names. “I know that we sometimes get into problems because I will not fire for one mistake. But I think you have to live with yourself. You must give a person opportunity.”

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Filling out the New York panel were a buyer from Macy’s, a medical researcher, a product manager for a cosmetics company and a rabbi, Josiah Derby, with a Conservative congregation in Queens.

Robinson initially questions if a business can survive with everyone looking out for himself. When the entire panel weighs in against letting one man pay the price for another’s mistake, he switches sides.

“This is a business,” he counters. “They keep pointing this out. Is it better off for a business to fire the man who made it,” meaning the mistake, or the man who is not as valuable to the company?

Even having the issue framed that way, the panelists frown on firing Richards just to spare Carlisle, and they find few angels in the lot. One of the panelists calls the men’s actions “crimes.”

“Let’s get a spiritual view on that, Rabbi,” Robinson interjects.

Swinging with ease at the softball he has just been tossed, the rabbi says that any business that makes a worker feel like “he’s just a cog is not going to produce that which our society needs.”

“It may produce goods, not human beings,” he adds.

Contrast that panel discussion about the importance of humanity and ethics in the workplace with Joel Klein's paean to himself in the Times yesterday in which he regrets not firing more teachers, closing more schools, ending tenure, seniority and other work protections for teachers and making public education into a bottom line business where only test scores matter.

Klein likes to style himself as a "civil rights leader" who fights the good fight in the civil rights movement.

A real civil rights leader - Jack Roosevelt Robinson - a man who endured taunts, death threats, and baseball spikes to the face on the baseball field in order to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball shows just what a true civil rights leader is: making sure that EVERYONE gets a fair shake in society, not just the executive and the all-mighty bottom line.