Who is Betty Burney really working for?

Below came from an article in the Times Union about the Duval County School Board searching for a new superintendent:

In addition, the board will get advice from officials with the nonprofit Center for Reform of Schools System, a Houston-based education consulting group that also trains school board members in governance with the focus on raising student achievement.

The center is an offshoot of the philanthropic Broad Foundation, which has trained superintendents or chief executive officers leading large urban public school systems. Burney is an unpaid “governance solutions trainer” for the center, which lists the Broad Foundation as a major funding partner.

The Broad foundation is one of the kings of the corporate reform movement. They or the organizations they finance have been known to support vouchers, charter schools, high stakes testing, performance pay for teachers and recently the parent trigger movement. Parent Revolution like the Center for Reform of Schools Systems receives funding from the broad foundation.

In short the broad foundation isn’t interested in improving education, they are interested in profiting off of education

From an article by John Tarelton in the Independent about corporate involvement in education:

Eli Broad
Net Worth: $5.4 Billion

Broad, a Los Angeles-based billionaire who made his fortune in insurance and real estate, has been at the forefront of the school restructuring movement over the past decade. Using the foundation that bears his name, he has pushed aggressively for schools to be run more like businesses. The Broad (pronounced like “road”) Foundation has seeded charter schools across the country, including in New York. It has also developed a number of programs to train school administrators, including the Broad Superintendent Academy, which instructs business, nonprofit, military, government and education leaders in how to manage urban school districts. A number of top officials at the New York City’s Department of Education have received Broad training. Speaking at the 92nd Street Y in New York City last year, Broad summarized his approach: “We don’t know anything about how to teach or reading curriculum or any of that. But what we do know about is management and governance.”