Alert to Public Educators! Beware of fancy sounding names such as 'Manhattan,' 'Hoover,' 'Fordham,' 'Hudson' and 'Edison!'

From John Curry, June 18, 2007
Subject: Alert to Public Educators!

Beware of names like Manhattan, Hoover, Fordham, Hudson and Edison!

What do they all have in common? Why, they all involve Chester! Chester is out to privatize public education. Chester will soon be appearing in a newspaper that lands on your front porch (if he hasn't already). Know what to look for and who are the names behind the public school privatization movement. Know that when a "study" is done re. public education by one of these groups that it may very well be more than just an unbiased endeavor in search of the truth.

John

Source: Media Transparency
http://www.mediatransparency.org/default.php

PERSON PROFILE Finn, Chester E. Jr.
28 institutional roles for $1,976,685

The well-traveled Chester Finn is one of the education policy gurus of the conservative movement. He currently (2005) is simultaneously a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, as well as president of the foundation's board of trustees.

Finn was formerly a John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and also formerly with the Hudson Institute in 1998. Finn is a former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education and a former legislative director for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. He was also a founding partner and senior scholar with the Edison Project, the private company setup to operate public schools on a for-profit basis. Hudson and Bradley are both major proponents of "school choice," which would allow public education money to be funneled to groups like Edison. For a time, Edison was being considered for a possible contract with the Milwaukee Public Schools system.