Here's a rogue's gallery of the who's of the education reform movement.

Read a description of each and post a comment on indypendent.org.
http://www.indypendent.org/2010/01/29/face...-school-reform/

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The Faces of School Reform

By John Tarleton
From the January 29, 2010 issue

Led by a band of billionaires, the school-reform movement has gained increasing momentum during the past decade, spreading its reach into urban communities across the country. But instead of truly transforming public schools, private funders want to restructure them. They insist running schools like a business is the solution. At stake is not only control over hundreds of billions of dollars in local, state and federal funding, but also the future of the next generation of schoolchildren.

Bill Gates
Net Worth: $50 billion

Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education

James Shelton
Assistant Deputy Director of Education, Director of Office of Inn ovation and Improvement, DOE

Eli Broad
Net Worth: $5.4 Billion

The Waltons
(Christy, Jim, Alice, S. Robson)
Net Worth: $79.4 billion

Eva Moskowitz

Joanne Weiss
Director, Race to the Top program, DOE

Michael Milken and Larry Ellison
Net worth: $2 billion and $27 billion

Democrats for Education Reform

Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth: $17.5 billion

Rev. Al Sharpton