Eli Broad "alumni" John Deasy, Jaime Aquino, and Matt Hill ran LAUSD's iPad Project

WHAT WENT WRONG WITH L.A. UNIFIED’S iPAD PROGRAM? To put it simply: There was a complete breakdown in the planning and execution of the initiative.

Eli Broad 'alum' John Deasy, Jaime Aquino & Matt Hill ran #LAUSD iPad project http://t.co/8QRhG7bBVq @RepairsNotIPads pic.twitter.com/sXM5s4iYVA

— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) May 18, 2015

Eli Broad "alumni" John Deasy, Jaime Aquino, and Matt Hill ran LAUSD's iPad Project

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Eli Broad is bored with giving prizes. Moving on to new top-down strategies.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Eli Broad is bored with giving prizes. Moving on t...: "No more prizes", says billionaire Eli Broad.  If your school district is hoping for a Broad Prize to carry it over the hump, ...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Eli Broad is bored with giving prizes. Moving on to new top-down strategies.

PESJA: When we say Eli Broad controls LAUSD, we're accused of peddling 'conspiracy theories.' Yet… policy isn't conspiracy.

When we say Eli Broad controls #LAUSD, we're accused of peddling 'conspiracy theories.' Yet… policy isn't conspiracy. pic.twitter.com/rQZlNrRTxz

— PESJA Los Angeles (@PESJA_LA) June 7, 2014

PESJA: When we say Eli Broad controls LAUSD, we're accused of peddling 'conspiracy theories.' Yet… policy isn't conspiracy.

LAUSD Coalition for School Reform Rogues Gallery Profile: Eli Broad

Eli Broad (rhymes with toad)

An accountant by training, Eli Broad made a killing peddling track homes during the housing bubbles with his firm KB Home. Later he was also the CEO of Sun Life, which he sold to toxic mortgage derivatives powerhouse AIG, Inc. When AIG received over $170 billion in TARP bailout funds for their credit default swap (CDS) loses, Broad pocketed tens of millions as an AIG preferred shareholder. Although he’s often cited as a philanthropist, Broad has mastered the art of using non-profits as a tax shelter to push through his ideological and business aims — particularly in the education sector. Looking to infuse the remains of the public sector with the corporate mindset, Broad established the The Broad Residency in Urban Education and The Broad Superintendents Academy. [1] These organizations recruit corporate executives, ex-military officers, and other non-educators to take the place of educators in various positions in the school system. The Broad Foundation typically pays for their placement and salaries, which meets little resistance by the impacted districts. His vision for school closures, reconstitutions, and widespread privatization has caused irreparable damage to public education and undermines any semblance of democracy.

[1] http://j.mp/YYIPe1

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LAUSD Coalition for School Reform Rogues Gallery Profile: Eli Broad

Schools Matter: When Capricious Young says no experience required, she requires no experience

"We are told that this 'reform' alliance of everyone from Rupert Murdoch to the Walton family to leading hedge funders spends huge amounts of money pushing for radical changes to public schools because they suddenly decided that they care about destitute children, and now want to see all kids get a great education." — David Sirota


In Los Angeles, nobody has been more adept at stuffing public money into their pockets via charter-voucher sector windfalls than Caprice Young. Her early career showed a trajectory of opportunism and greed that would place her in ever more lucrative positions as time progressed.

In my new Schools Matter article When Capricious Young says no experience required, she requires no experience I trace her nefarious career in which she has worked for people ranging from the racist, bigoted, anti-immigrant nativist Steve Poizner to the predatory capitalist and junk bond felon Michael Milken. We also see how she and her husband have both cashed in at the public's expense at the charter-voucher cash cow. Most importantly, we feature an informative letter from a reader who explores Young's newest hustle — EnCorps, Inc. — an odious organization designed to deprofessionalize teaching.

Published 2011-10-01 on Schools Matter, please read it there and share widely.

Schools Matter: When Capricious Young says no experience required, she requires no experience

Schools Matter: A match made in privatization purgatory? Capricious Young and A.J. Duffy!

"Improving education is not the goal. Privatization is the goal... Private interests are just that – private." — Bruce A. Dixon (Managing Editor, "Black Agenda Report")


I recently posted a short essay on political opportunist and public education turncoat A.J. Duffy jumping on the privatization bandwagon. In that essay I mentioned how the Los Angeles Times was using the episode to push their vile privatization agenda via an odious editorial. Right on the heels of the Times' gleeful hit-piece, expounding on their love for all forms of corporate rule, they gave Duffy's newfound partner in poverty pimping, Caprice "Capricious" Young, a platform to further pimp privatization. Young, an unelected board member of Duffy's lucrative foray into the privatization pool was quick to lay on the corporate charter spin. My Schools Matter essay entitled: A match made in privatization purgatory? Capricious Young and A.J. Duffy! looks at Duffy's newfound neoliberal colaborator. Remember Caprice Young is a devil. For a reminder see her endorsement on the back cover of this book on union busting and community exclusion.

Published 2011-09-07 on Schools Matter, please read it there and share widely.

Schools Matter: A match made in privatization purgatory? Capricious Young and A.J. Duffy!