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Prominent Union Apologist Sniffs Out School Reform ‘Re-segregation’ Motives

LGreen311 Wrote: Oct 30, 2012 2:31 PM
yet another Liberal who espouses the mantra of do what I say, not as I do. She bore 2 sons (3rd died of cancer) and resides in Brooklyn Heights, which is the most expensive of the outer borough's, where a studio apt rents for a mere $2000/month. She married and raised her children in the best of the best of neighborhoods, where they attended a school that during the 60's thru the 80's would have been self-segregated, based upon incomes of minorities keeping most of them from residing in this area of New York, which is the time in which she would have had children in school. The racism she now sees if simply her own reflection, which finally came into focus enough for her to see by the age of 72...LOL!

Defending the educational status quo has become a lucrative business for Diane Ravitch. For one speech alone, she received an $8,869 honorarium from the Michigan Education Association, according to union financial documents.

String a few of those together each year and she’s well on her way to Randi Weingarten territory among the elite so-called “one percent.”

So as states continue to pass and implement sweeping educational reforms rooted in choice and competition, Ravitch has been traveling around the country defending teachers unions and government schools and collecting her loot.

But it appears she’s becoming a bit unhinged in the...

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