Posted on 01/15/2012 6:41:27 AM PST by IbJensen
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge:
In 1995 William Ayers appointed Barack Obama as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which aimed to infuse students with a radical political commitment and emphasized social activism far more than academic achievement and test scores.
Bankrolled by the billionaire publishing mogul Walter H. Annenberg and his charitable foundation, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was a five-year school-reform effort created ostensibly to improve public schools in Chicago and elsewhere across the United States. Mr. Annenberg seeded this initiative with $500 million.
School reform initiative in the 1990s Founded by William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist
Sought to infuse students with a radical political commitment, emphasizing social activism far more than academic achievement and test scores.
Barack Obama served as chairman from 1995-1999.
On December 17, 1993, President Bill Clinton hosted a White House ceremony at which he announced Annenberg's undertaking, calling it “the largest single gift ever made to American public education.”
A Republican who had cultivated close relationships with former presidents Richard Nixon (under whom he served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain) and Ronald Reagan, Annenberg urged political leaders to “promote widespread ... support for resolute and sustained public investment” in the public-school system. Reasoning from the premise that America's public schools were chronically under-funded, Annenberg stipulated that each of his grant recipients should be required to raise matching funds – and in some cases twice as much as the value of the CAC grant – from such sources as the federal government, charitable foundations, and corporations.
While the majority of CAC's grants were earmarked for public-school reform, many of them also aided private schools and colleges. Most ($350 million) of CAC's public-school grants were channeled to school-reform efforts not only in Chicago but also in other major cities like Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Another $50 million was designated for similar initiatives in rural schools.
Some CAC-funded projects were co-sponsored by large philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Boston Foundation, the Charles Hayden Foundation, the Hirsch Family Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the Skillman Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
While Walter Annenberg provided the money that allowed CAC to function, William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist, was, as author Stanley Kurtz puts it, the founder of CAC as well as “its guiding spirit.” In 1987 Ayers had launched a new career as a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where CAC was headquartered.
Under Ayers' stewardship, CAC scarcely focused at all on measures aimed at improving student performance in traditional curricular studies, but rather was guided by Ayers' belief – as outlined in his book Teaching Toward Freedom – that the primary duty of educators was to “teach against [the] oppression” that allegedly pervaded American society, and to thereby encourage revolution and social transformation. Toward that end, Ayers' teacher-training programs, which were funded by CAC, were designed to serve as “sites of resistance” against an oppressive social system.
CAC's grant-making decisions generally were consistent with Ayers' educational philosophy, which aimed to infuse students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which emphasized social activism far more than academic achievement and test scores. Grant proposals from groups that focused on academics typically were turned down. Rather than fund schools directly, CAC generally required them to affiliate with “external partners” -- one particular favorite was the community organization ACORN -- which actually received the grant money and, in turn, implemented in the schools whatever ideologically-driven programs they wished to institute.
CAC was also a major funder of the so-called "small schools" movement, a William Ayers creation whereby individual schools committed themselves to the promotion of specific political themes and pushed students to “confront issues of inequity, war, and violence.” The American Thinker notes that because CAC focused so much more on the radicalization, rather than on the education, of students, it “failed to produce any measurable academic gains, according to [its] own final report.”
When CAC was first established in 1995, Ayers was one of five members of a working group that assembled the organization's initial board of directors. The young community organizer and budding politician Barack Obama was appointed chairman of that board, a post he would hold until 1999. CAC archives show that during their years at CAC, Obama and Ayers worked as a team to advance the organization's agendas – with Obama responsible for fiscal matters while Ayers focused on shaping educational policy. Moreover, the two collaborated to write CAC’s by-laws.
Over the course of Obama's tenure as CAC board chair, the organization gave more than $100 million to community organizers and radical education activists. Some $600,000 of that total went to a group founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a hardline Marxist-Leninist.
After CAC's mission was complete in 1999, Obama remained on the board of directors until the organization phased itself out of existence in 2001. At that time, CAC transferred its remaining assets to a new entity called the Chicago Public Education Fund. Obama served on this Fund’s “Leadership Council” from 2001 through 2004, along with William Ayers’ father (Thomas) and brother (John).
Any American fool that fails to see that Obozo is a clone of Ayers and they share the desire that America be completely demolished is a deluded ninnyhammer!
I looked into this after the Tucson shooting. The first link no longer goes to the article I started with:
I looked at http://www.theroadtohellonline.com/articles.html and Ward Churchill’s name caught my eye, and then Noam Chomsky.
I’ve been looking into that Tucson terrorist a little and his schooling. It seems he was profoundly influenced by Zeitgeist documentary.
Basically, the documentary, “Zeitgeist”,
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
is the propaganda arm of an organization called “The Venus Project”.
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
The Venus Project is a movement aimed at overcoming the supposed lack of sustainable communities for mankind on the planet.
His ex-girlfriend was heavily influenced by environmental policies. You can see the video here: http://www.norcalblogs.com/gate/2011/01/shooter-never-listened-to-talk-radio-called-gifford-stupid-after-meeting-her.php
This Small Schools Workshop that Klonsky is director of captivates young minds and tells them they are being suppressed by the evil white capitalists. The workshop has the same teachers stay with the kids throughout their high school. These teachers have more time to influence these kids than their parents do.
This blogger captured a 2008 article from Klonsky. In here you will read about the Social Justice High School specifically created to foster basic skills and literacy as well as critical inquiry through projects and problems centered on race, gender and economic equity.
To them, the movement to link education, social justice and activism is appealing. It is an exciting way to engage a new generation of urban students alienated by mainstream methodologies.
http://www.gettingpaidtowatch.com/2008/08/24/marxist-indoctrination-was-funded-by-ayersobama-to-mike-klonskys-small-schools-workshop/
Everywhere I look, the connections to Klonsky, Ayers, Dorhn, they are all radical professors. Most of them go back to the SDS era of the 60s. Everywhere I look there are more radical professors connected to these people. They all want to disrupt our country, that is their intent. How can this have been going on so long without something being done about it?
They have a radical teacher blog: http://radicalteacherblog.wordpress.com/
Klonsky and Dohrn from 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTEIPXP8K0&feature=related
Look at this guy from UCLA http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/mclaren/
Watch Ron Gochez again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybaDyMr1rs
Obviously the $500 million had little positive impact on the educational quality of Chicago schools. However, I would be curious to know how much of that money ended up in the pockets of Ayers and Obama personally.
Discover the Networks
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/summary.asp?object=Persons&category=
Here is a list of the most despicable humans in the world, many of them teachers and professors.
The same questions I have about who funded the trips to Egypt for William Ayres and wife along with Code Pink leader to assist protests in Egypt shortly before Mubarak was dumped and the protests began in the streets of Egypt. Code Pink shrew is a money bundler for Obama. This connection to the Obama neighbors and fundraisers going to foreign nations and causing unrest should be on the top of the list for the feds under normal circumstances. Something smells with this gang.
Why did Annenberg, friend to Reagan and Nixon, fund the efforts of a marxist terrorist Ayers???
What’s disgusting is knowing that 40 to 50 million Americans look up to these people and would put their trust in them to reconstruct our republic.
Good Lord, whatever happened to educating our youth so they could read, calculate and analyze history so they could think for themselves and exercise their freedoms to get active about the topics of their own selection?
Thanks for posting this.
25,000,000 dead if it helps the revolution. William Ayers. Need I say more. Obama’s Mentor.
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