Here Bill, all wrapped up

The statement at the top of the Missouri Watchdog Website Reads

"Here's an idea. Why doesn't the country fire Arne Duncan, get rid of the Department of Education and just hire Bill Gates? He's self-funding, and he's doing everything anyway."--Laurie Rogers

Since January when Sandra first started work on her Education Reform Blogs, Bill Gates' name keeps showing up everywhere.  He was there when Sandra posted her blog on Data Mining Children way back in early January, he created the programs for the project.

A few days later she posted on the Eli Board Foundation's efforts to train and  place School Superintendents on local school boards. In order to make the deal more attractive to the school boards, the foundation would subsidize the new superintendents salary or a couple years.  It turned out Bill Gates was in the background subsidizing the Eli Board foundation..

A little latter it started becoming obvious he was behind the teacher merit pay plans the state legislatures all shoved through this spring so they could get Obama's Race To The Top money..  All those tests that would be required to grade the teachers will end up being administered and scored by Bill Gate's close friends and business associates at Pearson Testing. Three guesses who owns the programs they use..

When the discussion turned to Nationalized Common Core Testing and Nation wide  Standardized Testing Program.. It seems Bill Gates, or his employees may have written the programs original guidelines.  When the Department of Education awarded contracts to two consortia to actually develop the programs, there was Bill Gates with his new business partner Pearson Testing.

If you even need to ask who is behind and who stands to profit from the Virtual Charter School proposals, you're not paying attention...

In more emails than I can count, step by step Sandra and I have been discussing this privately, at first it seemed so far fetched it had to be nuts.  We've both been reluctant to start talking about a conspiricy to Nationalize Public Education and then hand it over to a private company to manage.. but that seems to be the plan.  A couple days ago Sandra sent me a link to susanohanian.org

Sandra and I aren't the only ones thinking along those lines. 

Take your time, read the quotes slowly, then go back and read the entire article when you have the time..

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