Marc Tucker, Bill Clinton and the Dear Hillary Letter
In 1983, Bill Clinton became Governor of Arkansas where he was Governor until 1992. During this time, his wife Hillary served on the Board of Directors of a wealthy billionaire owned corporation called Walmart from 1986 to 1992. Hillary also made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for the law firm that represented the Walmart billionaires – the Waltons. Thus, Hillary became good friends with the Walton family billionaires who have since worked with another billionaire Bill Gates to push for a corporate takeover of our public schools.
In 1983, Hillary used the “Nation At Risk” study as an excuse to create a task force called the “Arkansas Educational Standards Committee” to reform Arkansas's education system. Like nearly all other corporate ed reformers, Hillary does not have a degree in Education and has never taught in a public school.
In 1984, Hillary Clinton supposedly wrote her own response to A Nation At Risk. She called it the “Education Reform Report.” In this report, she called for higher standards and statewide teacher testing across the State of Arkansas. To pay for the Teacher Testing, Bill Clinton helped pass a sales tax increase of $180 million – the largest tax increase in the history of Arkansas. This money did not go to hiring more teachers. Instead, it went to private corporations that tested students and teachers. Many of the recommendations in Hillary's Education Reform report in 1984 made it into the Tucker “A Nation Prepared” report in 1986 - which also focused on blaming teachers for poor student test scores. Some have claimed that the reason the two reports were so similar is that Bill Clinton had actually hired Marc Tucker to restructure the Arkansas education system in 1984 and the Hillary Clinton report had actually been ghost written by Marc Tucker.
In 1983, Bill Clinton became Governor of Arkansas where he was Governor until 1992. During this time, his wife Hillary served on the Board of Directors of a wealthy billionaire owned corporation called Walmart from 1986 to 1992. Hillary also made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for the law firm that represented the Walmart billionaires – the Waltons. Thus, Hillary became good friends with the Walton family billionaires who have since worked with another billionaire Bill Gates to push for a corporate takeover of our public schools.
In 1983, Hillary used the “Nation At Risk” study as an excuse to create a task force called the “Arkansas Educational Standards Committee” to reform Arkansas's education system. Like nearly all other corporate ed reformers, Hillary does not have a degree in Education and has never taught in a public school.
In 1984, Hillary Clinton supposedly wrote her own response to A Nation At Risk. She called it the “Education Reform Report.” In this report, she called for higher standards and statewide teacher testing across the State of Arkansas. To pay for the Teacher Testing, Bill Clinton helped pass a sales tax increase of $180 million – the largest tax increase in the history of Arkansas. This money did not go to hiring more teachers. Instead, it went to private corporations that tested students and teachers. Many of the recommendations in Hillary's Education Reform report in 1984 made it into the Tucker “A Nation Prepared” report in 1986 - which also focused on blaming teachers for poor student test scores. Some have claimed that the reason the two reports were so similar is that Bill Clinton had actually hired Marc Tucker to restructure the Arkansas education system in 1984 and the Hillary Clinton report had actually been ghost written by Marc Tucker.
Certificates in Mastery Failure
The first paragraph should get your attention with the words of Marc Tucker: "The advent of the Clinton administration creates a unique opportunity for the country to develop a truly national system for the development of its human resources (your children), second to none on the globe".
Page 16 is interesting explaining how the roles of the school boards would change no longer being owned by the local districts, but operated by independent contractors, many of them to be LLC's owned and run by teachers themselves - (it gets better).
Page 16 is interesting explaining how the roles of the school boards would change no longer being owned by the local districts, but operated by independent contractors, many of them to be LLC's owned and run by teachers themselves - (it gets better).