Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
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If anything is goin' to sell
-- Bob Dylan

Thursday, June 9, 2011

"Reformer" Klein is a hustler supreme

He helps land Rupert Murdoch a $27 million no-bid contract from NY schools

The money - part of the state's $700 million in Race to the Top winnings - will go to Wireless Generation, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., to develop software to track student test scores, among other things. Wireless Generation helped build a similar system in the city called Achievement Reporting and Innovation Systems, or ARIS, that has been widely criticized in the city. The contract would expand the ARIS system statewide.

In a request sent to the state controller's office in May to sign off on a no-bid process, officials cited the tight timeline for beginning the Race to the Top project and the company's record at producing results. -- Daily News
hy did the state argue for this contract? On the basis of Wireless’ record in developing ARIS, NYC’s much criticized $80 million data system. Recently, Lindsey Christ of NY1 in an award-winning three-part series pointed out the glaring deficiencies of ARIS and the far superior data system developed by NYC teachers for relative pennies. Last fall, Gotham Schools did a similar expose; we featured critical observations from a teacher about the inadequacies of the system back in 2008.  The hi-tech community recognized it a huge boondoggle and a “super mugging” when the no-bid contract was first announced in 2007. -- NYC Public School Parent
Supreme hustler Klein, who could rake in as much as $4.5 million this year at his new gig with News Corp., also will collect $34,000 annually for life after serving 8 years as chancellor. This after slamming teacher pensions as "hollowing out public education."

4 comments:

  1. It is all sad. It is funny how repubs say u can't just throw money at education yet here we r funneling education funds to the rich. Who has the balls to stand up to the abuse of education funding by the super rich?

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  2. Mike I have an opinion regarding this matter being a former Special Education supervisor in NYC when the Swindler extraordinaire was in the city. email me... Keith

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  3. Don't have ur email address Dr. Lockwood, but feel free to share your opinions right here.

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  4. Who has the womb, Anon?

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