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I guess Bloomberg/Klein and their billionaire buddies — including Gates and Broad — decided that the charter school army of parents as described in the now-infamous Moskowitz emails will be sufficient to influence public opinion to allow them to achieve their ends; and that the attempt to get district public school parents to align themselves with their policies was hopeless, that Learn NY seemed to be engaged in after the battle on mayoral control was won . Question:
Will we ever find out how much money was raised and spent by Learn NY, from who was it gotten (besides Bill Gates) and how exactly it was spent?

No more Learn NY. Does this mean Bloom/Klein know mayoral control won’t be renewed again?

This particular faux grass-rootsy front group notwithstanding… Bloomberg and similarly striped billionaire eduphilanthropists and/or corporatists will continue to push for more centralized control of more government functions anywhere they see an opportunity to both beat down any combination of public and private costs (aka bust unions) and reap exclusively private profits (per charter executives if not the charter entities themselves).

The jury’s still out on whether this mindset ultimately benefits the average citizen, one block of government services at a time, whether public education, public incarceration services, public health, or public defense.

The jury may still be out on whether such mindset is ultimately beneficial or profitable for the proponents. But it’s already clear that such mindset is detrimental to both democracy and accountability, and provides a profit incentive to cream, imprison, deny coverage, and wage war, respectively.

One buck one vote; not one person one vote. With the blessings of the current Supremely misguided Court I might add. Sigh.