The ink is hardly dry on Michelle Rhee’s resignation letter from the chancellor’s position in the Washington, DC public school system, but no moss is growing under this high energy lady’s feet!
She is announcing plans to form StudentsFirst, a new lobbying organization that will challenge the education employee unions’ current lock on school politics.
Rhee is planning big – one billion dollars big – and one major player, Eli Broad, a well-known Los Angeles philanthropist is already on board.
Read more in this Sacramento Bee article.
I’ll bet a lot of union activists in DC are already wondering if they achieved a Pyrrhic victory when their heavy political activism led to the ousting of the mayor who appointed Lee to her DC schools job. That union political win ultimately led to Lee’s resignation.
Now, Lee is coming back at the unions in a way that could cost these employees first/kids second organizations millions.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Michelle Rhee starting lobbying organization to counter teachers unions!
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So is Rhee being paid for this union by Charter Schools?
Teachers in LA County read about your upcoming lay offs
http://www.workers.org/2010/us/teachers_1125/
Why is it that the foreign Gulen Movement that manages over 150 Charter schools in the USA continues to falsely obtain h1-b work visas for un qualified teachers from Turkey / Turkic speaking countries? In the Los Angeles County the Gulen Schools are called Magnolia Science Academy. Read the h1-b Visa report below, they are claiming they cannot find math, science, computer and English teachers in the USA. These schools have recently been busted in Ohio for hiring foreigners via the Concept Schools. http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/nov/23/public-charter-school-funds-under-scrutiny-ar-301282/
H1-b Visa info here: http://www.h1bwage.com/index.php?q=science%20teacher
In fact, did you know that the Cosmos Foundation part of the Gulen Movement has immigrated more foreign teachers in than the largest school district in the USA. Of course that would be LAUSD, who is allowing this? That number for Cosmos Foundation alone is over 1,100 h1-b visas since 2001 and Cosmos Foundation is only ONE of the Gulen Movement’s NGOs that are doing this. Who is dismantling the American Education System so followers of Islamic Imam Fethullah Gulen can teach our children? http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2010/07/gulen-schools-and-their-booming-h1b.html
Not only visas for teachers but now they are getting h1-b visas for finance managers, business managers and legal counsel (as if America doesn’t have thousands of qualified people for these jobs) http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/importing-english-teachers-from-turkey.html
If you are a proud American Teacher and have been laid off, do what the teachers in Chicago and Ohio have done…………………………fight back against the Gulen Movement overtaking America’s education. http://www.magnoliascienceacademy.blogspot.com http://www.charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com http://www.gulencharterschoolsUSA.blogspot.com http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com
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