In swell of downsizing, a decision to move on

WALTER RUBEL | LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS

“For the past decade or so, I’ve seen my career as sort of a race to get to retirement before being swept up in the next round of layoffs.

I came close. I even set a retirement date, November 2020. Elections have always been one of my favorite parts of the job, and I wanted to keep working through one more. But even as I was explaining my plans, I couldn’t help but observe out loud, “Nobody else in this business gets to call their own shot. I don’t know what makes me think I’m special.”

It turns out that I’m not special.“

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https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2019/02/03/swell-downsizing-decision-move/2702891002/

Long-Time School Privatizer, Cory Booker Enters 2020 Race as Democratic Presidential Contender

Excellent recap on candidate Booker. He’s no friend of public education.

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Public education policy is not usually something on which Presidential candidates have a solid record. They make their cases on foreign, economic, and environmental policy. The future of public schools makes it into the Party platforms but rarely becomes a candidate’s make-or-break issue.

However, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who, last Friday, declared himself a Democratic candidate for President in 2020, has a long record of projects that threaten public education.  Cory Booker has been a leader in the effort to privatize public education for nearly two decades.

Most recently as mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 2006-2013, he collaborated with New Jersey’s Republican Governor, Chris Christie on an idea for a charter school transformation for the city’s schools. In her 2015 book, The Prize, Dale Russakoff summarizes the Booker-Christie scheme: “One of the goals was to ‘make Newark the charter school capital of the nation.’ The plan…

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