Stand for Children Stands for the Rich and the Powerful…

[proud2BlibKansan]

…who want to break the backs of the teachers’ unions.

Many of us have said that before, now you can see and hear it for yourselves.

This video was taken at the Aspen Ideas Festival which is heavily funded by Bill Gates. Stand For Children’s Co-Founder Jonah Edelman explains how he, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan’s senior advisor Jo Anderson, out foxed the Chicago teachers’ union.

This is where the money that Stand for Children raises actually goes to, to gain power for the billionaire boyz club, DFER and all of those hedge fund millionaires who want to take over and privatize our pubic schools.

Watch the video --> http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/stand-for-children-stands-for-the-rich-and-the-powerful/

Lots more here from Susan Ohanian --> http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2414§ion=Article

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. ASPEN INSTITUTE DELETES STAND FOR CHILDREN VIDEO FROM WEB ACCESS..

How the Ruling Class works against public schools and teacher unions... Aspen Institute Session on SB7, Stand for Children, narrates the ruling class's triumph in Illinois

If there was ever and example of the ruling class dictating educational policy and then crowing about it, the recent Aspen Institute session on SB 7 and the work of Stand for Children during the past nine months in Illinois is it. The Aspen Institute, which has been exposed by many analysts (most notably for Substance readers, Susan Ohanian) as one of the key players in corporate rule, held a conference recently at which James Crown (one of the billionaires from the billionaire family that helped bankroll Stand for Children) and Jonah Edelman provided an hour of detail on how they foisted SB 7 on Illinois.

On July 9, 2011, the direct link to the Aspen Institute site that contained the video became unavailable, but the link through the Chicago Tribune blog (district 299.com) was still up. The Tribune blog link, for those who cannot get a hotlink, is http://www.chicagonow.com/district-299-chicago-public-schools-blog/2011/07/polishing-the-sb7-reform-story/

All of the speakers and participants in the panel agree now: SB7 and how "Stand" brought it to Illinois is now a model that the ruling class is going to follow in the future to forge legislation based on the bipartisan consensus they are parading out as a key to the next phase of corporate "school reform." Substance is working on getting a complete transcript of the Aspen Institute session, as well as interviewing leaders of the Illinois Education Association (IEA) about their personal and organizational role in creating and maintaining the Jim Crow "separate and not equal status" of the largest (mostly minority) school district in Illinois, Chicago, at the back of the bud legislatively. This story is just beginning to be told, and the role of the wealthy men and women who are creating phony "grass roots" organizations like "Stand for Children" and "Advance Illinois" will be studied and exposed as well. For those who cannot get the hotlink above, the URL is: http://aifestival.org/session/if-it-can-happen-there-it-can-happen-anywhere-transformational-education-legislation# POSTED AS A COMMENT AND ADDED HERE AS WELL ON JULY 9, 2011... Some time during the past 12 hours, between July 8 and July 9, 2011, the hotlink from which we were getting the Jonah Edelman video (with his master, billionaire Jim Crown) went dead. If you try the direct link to Aspen, you get "PAGE NOT FOUND. The requested page could not be found.

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2413§ion=Article

[Chan790]

2. There is also Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst.

Oh, I felt bad for them. Someone sold them a list of DC residents whose interests included "education policy". I was on that list because I'd been a member of a research team for the Gray campaign working to defeat Adrian Fenty explicitly to get rid of Michelle Rhee. Let's just say that she knows who I am.

My rebuttal to their email was very unkind. I now wonder if I should have stayed on to wreak havoc from within. I think that might be the best course of action...join these organizations and subvert from within.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Here isa good read from a parent who left Stand for Children

http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2011/07/stand-for-children-a-hometown-perspective-of-its-evolution/

[roxiejules]

9. Full video is also here

http://www.educationnation.com/index.cfm?objectid=12F0D706-A2EC-11E0-8C49000C296BA163



:hi:

Thank you for posting!

[Long Shadow]

3. Ignorance is epitomized by the fear of ideas that do not conform

to long-established means and methods.

However, there are always some who refuse to settle for the status quo.

[femmocrat]

5. Thanks for your great work keeping us informed, P2BLK!

K&R

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. You are very welcome

[maryf]

6. K&Rnt

[madfloridian]

8. Great links from Ohanian's post at Substance News.

:hi:

[Starry Messenger]

10. k&r