Comments on Advance Indiana™: Free Trips Tie Education Book Publisher To Convicted Chicago School Superintendent

"The purpose of government is for those who r...

2015-11-13T12:43:18.775-05:00

"The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not." Thomas DiLorenzo. All this is is a battle between the Crips and Bloods or Jets and Sharks. Prosecutors and judges are government as well.

Anon 9:52: Every study I have read say schools reflect community, not vice versa. Good parents make good students and neighborhoods which beget decent schools.

Anon 11:55: There were a lot of government workers and contractors with me overseas in Kuwait and Iraq bringing the freedom. It was a very well-paying job. Some would call it being an overseas mercenary.

If you can't privatize IPS from the outside, b...

2015-11-13T11:55:23.904-05:00

If you can't privatize IPS from the outside, by the slow process of permitting additional charter schools, you do it from the inside by adding a few school board members who's aim it is to decentralize the system and prime individual schools for takeover. These champions of education have flocked to the pot of gold that is the taxpayers' yearly, dependable flow of cash into the system with the opportunity to explore other means of extracting wealth. Sure, we can blame the R's and the D's for not having regulations or taking actions that prevent corruption in the use of taxpayer funds but it is the corporations themselves that are responsible for what they do. By the way, corporations send jobs overseas the government does not.

Yes, every steward of the taxpayers' money, ev...

2015-11-13T09:52:05.569-05:00

Yes, every steward of the taxpayers' money, every City County Council, every administrator, every politicians, and "every school district in the country should be taking notice of the extent of the corruption" in these deals... but they won't.

Here in Indy, I offer that we'd be far better off improving IPS. Nothing affects and protects neighborhood property values as well as strong, effective, school systems. All the corrupt Republicans AND corrupt Democrats prefer to do is sell out the childrens' souls for personal gain.

You wrote often trying to warn the voters about the corruptive influences of the local school board candidates. The voters did not listen and the City is now saddled with school board members with an allegiance to corporatism instead of to the voters...

Some Chicago pols have relocated to Indiana and th...

2015-11-13T08:27:45.562-05:00

Some Chicago pols have relocated to Indiana and they find the pickings easier here than there.