Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records (Obama and Ayers)

Global Labor and Politics ^ | 8/20/2008 | Steve Diamond

[Milligan]

I like this website provided by Alex Russo and Chicago Teachers Union. It’s filled with wealth of information. They like to air out their dirty laundry.

http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/RUSSO/index.php/entry/1145/Dallas_Vs._Stewart_—_The_Update

“Obama Gives Dodge Elementary A Shout Out — And Slams Teachers At The Same Time”

Poster: “...Arne Duncan to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education. Remember they are friends and grew up in Hyde Park.”

http://district299.typepad.com/district299/2007/07/obama-gives-dod.html

Who is Arne Duncan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan

Maybe we should E-mail Alex Russo to get the inside scoop about CAC?

[Milligan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Darling-Hammond

[Milligan]

Newspaper article on Linda Darling-Hammond.
Some people think she’s not qualified for her position. She prefers a liberal arts education for our children.

Math or Science takes a back seat.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2007/12/16/sparring_over_o.html

[Nailbiter]

ping

[IncPen]

Holy crap, no wonder Hillary’s itching for Denver. This is damning stuff.

I can’t wait to see what the ‘swiftboats’ do with it

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Another reference from the Blogosphere ( Flopping Aces ):

Steve Diamond - lawyer/blogger hot on the Obama-Ayers trail His Annenberg Challenge story

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There is most certainly one intrepid blogger/lawyer who’s got the info jump on the Obama-Ayers-Chicago Annenberg Challenge issue. And that would be Steve Diamond, author of his blog, Global Labor and Politics.

Diamond is a lawyer, a law professor and a political scientist on the faculty of Santa Clara University School of Law. Diamond is also a former Chicago member of the, as he puts it, “limousine liberals” from the leafy green suburbs that surround the city.”

Diamond was able to secure a small amount of documentation of the 70 linear feet of records housed at the U of IL Daley Library INRE the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. *Prior* to the door being slammed in Kurtz’s face, that is. These include: board minutes, financial records and annual reports”. As he says, they are far from a complete picture, but they do help explain the close relationship between Ayers and Obama that he has, to date, played down.

Coming from a progressive point of view, the entire story is apt to get a “what’s the beef?” response. Afterall, on the surface, Ayers and Obama were working together on what appears to be an admirable cause… empowering local school councils (LSCs) as the new center of power for community schools.

Diamond has a very complete analysis of the CAC (Chicago Annenberg Challenge) in his post yesterday, “Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records”.

And it comes down to this… Obama and Ayers together controlled $160 mil in cash. Unfortunately the only ultimate beneficiaries from all this cash ended up being their political friends.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some good links on this thread.

[ETL]

Thanks! Excellent stuff. I haven’t actually looked into this yet myself.

[Fred Nerks]

See comment #26

And it comes down to this… Obama and Ayers together controlled $160 mil in cash. Unfortunately the only ultimate beneficiaries from all this cash ended up being their political friends.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks E. Think I will bookmark this post.