Posted on 03/25/2010 8:33:54 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
When he led the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan kept a list of all the big shots who asked for help in getting certain children into the city's best public schools. The Chicago Tribune has reported that Duncan, now Obama's Secretary of Education, created a back door appeals system that helped the children of the Politically connected get first dibs on the best school slots.
The list that Duncan kept included a compilation of politicians and influential business people who interceded on behalf of children during Duncan's tenure. It includes 25 Chicago aldermen, House Speaker Michael Madigan's daughter Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Among others.
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How much corruption does it take to smack the voters upside the head with a sledgehammer? Answer: apparently a lot more than I thought.
Wait until you figure out how reparations figures into the Obozocare, government health care for bozos, and the education preferences of doctors. Do you want an affirmative action doctor or the best you can find.
Public education is a joke. Abolish it.
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