VIDEO: 2011: When the Billionaires Bought BESE
The 28-minute video near the end of this post, 2011: When the Billionaires Bought BESE, was produced by Louisiana journalist Mike Stagg.
Mike Stagg
It is the edited-for-television version of his video research on the 2011 state board of education (BESE) elections in Louisiana– a BESE election in which an unprecedented amount of out-of-state cash flowed into Louisiana in order to advance a test-score-obsessed, corporate education reform agenda.
The video is set to air as follows:
LAFAYETTE
KLAF
Sunday 10/11: 10:30 am
Sunday 10/18: 10:30 am
KADN
Sunday 10/11 thru Friday 10/16: 6:30 am
Sunday 10/18: 6:30 am
NEW ORLEANS
WVUE
Saturday 10/10 5:30 AM
Sunday 10/11 5:30 AM
Saturday 10/17 5:30 AM
Sunday 10/18: 1:30 pm
LAKE CHARLES
NVHP
Sunday 10/11 11 am
Sunday 10/18 11 am
KVHP
Sunday 10/11 9:30 am
Thursday 10/15 6:30 am
Friday 10/16 6:30 am
ALEXANDRIA
KLAX
Saturday 10/10 10:30 pm
Sunday 10/11 12:30 pm
Saturday 10/17 6 am
Sunday 10/18 6 am
SHREVEPORT
KTBS
Sunday 10/11 4 pm
Sunday 10/18 1:30 pm
MONROE
KTVE NBC
Sunday 10/11 11:30 am
BATON ROUGE
WAFB
Saturday 10/10 1 pm
It’s 2015, and the out-of-state money continues to flow, with California billionaire Eli Broad donating $250,000, and Arkansas billionaires, Alice and Jim Walton, contributing $400,000.
The election is October 24, 2015, with early voting starting Saturday, October 10:
State and local officials want to remind residents that early voting will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday [October 10] until Oct. 17, with the exception of Sunday.
The billionaire buyout needs to end.
Time to FLIP BESE. (Click image to enlarge.)
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Schneider is a southern Louisiana native, career teacher, trained researcher, and author of the ed reform whistle blower, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who In the Implosion of American Public Education.
She also has a second book, Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools?, published on June 12, 2015.
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Trackbacks & Pingbacks
- Schneider: When the Billionaires Bought the Louisiana State Board of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog
- Investigating John White’s Teaching Experience: The Emails (Part I) | deutsch29
- Paul Pastorek Is Positioned to Charterize Puerto Rico. Who Is This Guy, Anyway? | deutsch29
- The Gimmick Behind a Walton-Featured, 100-Percent-College-Acceptance Charter School | deutsch29
- La. BESE’s Kira Orange Jones: Shifting Residency, Missing Ethics Filings, and Profound Meeting Absences | deutsch29
- Mercedes Schneider: Does This Member of the Louisiana State Board of Education Live in Louisiana? | Diane Ravitch's blog
- Education Reform Now: Manufacturing Grass Roots Support for La. BESE Candidates Castille and Orange-Jones | deutsch29
- Over $3M in Out-of-State Cash Poured into La. BESE Election; Waltons Pay $1.3M | deutsch29
deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog 
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Last I checked the Waltons were up to at least 750k. Check out Rayne Martin’s Stand for Children PAC. 250k from Jim in September.
Reblogged this on Dolphin and commented:
If any of you are late coming to the education profiteering going on, this is a very good place to start. The video gives a good timeline of the profiteers like Eli Broad, another sleazebag cohort of the Clintons, among others.