randi weingarten & broad

[Hannah Bell]

The education philanthropist Eli Broad is based in Los Angeles, but at an event this week in Manhattan he painted a vivid picture of the unique influence he’s exerted in the New York City schools.

Broad said that his foundation has given money to the two charter schools the union president here, Randi Weingarten, opened; has trained seven or eight of the top officials in Chancellor Joel Klein’s Department of Education; and was a player in Klein and Weingarten’s merit-based pay deal.

http://gothamschools.org/2009/03/11/eli-broad-describes-close-ties-to-klein-weingarten-duncan/.



i'd been wondering why weingarten has been so limply ineffectual in the face of open assault on public ed. she has her own charter schools?

and she took *eli broad's* money?



http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/29295

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. "Limply Ineffectual" is/was her middle name , esp. as UFT Prez.

I always connected that fact to Bloomberg's potential to make good $$$$ things happen to not-so-good but cooperative people somewhere down the road.

The Broad aspect adds another dimension. Food for thought.