Not only that, but he is paying for documentaries that attack the public school system, yet paint him and other pro-charter 'thought leaders' in a positive ligh

Not only that, but he is paying for documentaries that attack the public school system, yet paint him and other pro-charter 'thought leaders' in a positive light: "'Waiting for Superman' is a new documentary film that is being lauded as a path-breaking exposé of the problems with public schools in this country, and as a vehicle to pretend that some hard-working, school “reform” experts, have the solutions. [...] But the movie is remarkable for the “facts” it doesn’t show: how public money has been handed over to corporations and banks, resulting in public schools closing, students being jammed into overcrowded classrooms, with no equipment, books, or sometimes, not even toilet paper. It doesn’t show how so-called top leaders in education summits are primarily CEOs and charter school operators, as well as Wall Street “Investment” bankers and representatives from foundations pushing the agendas of billionaires like Bill Gates and Eli Broad." [1] Rick Ayers on DemocracyNow: "In a way, it reminds me of the Horatio Alger stories in the nineteenth century, when there was great union agitation for raising up the working class, and these Horatio Alger stories would be these wonderful individual stories of individuals who worked hard and did what they were told and became successful, so we do not need a union movement, we just need individuals to succeed under capitalism. And these stories about individuals making it out of the ghetto and the very moving examples of the scholarship student who gets out are put forward precisely to avoid any talk about real problems of poverty, real problems of access, real problems all the students are facing in a place like Harlem." [1] https://the-spark.net/np879404.html https://the-spark.net/np879404.html [2] https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/1/waiting_for_superman_critics_say_much https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/1/waiting_for_superman_...