Mike Klonsky's Blog

"Don’t follow leaders  Watch the parkin’ meters" -- Robert Zimmerman In '65, a prophetic Dylan must have had vision of C...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor's brilliant dissent     “In my colleagues’ view, examining the racial impact of legislation only perpet...

Quotes are the actual fabric with which the mind weaves: internalizing them, but also turning them inside out, quarreling with them, addi...

Where's Cathie Black? Village Academy wants to know . A fig leaf "This compromise is not a compromise at all, but a very tra...

Bill Gates is back on top of the Billionaire Boys Club* this year, with $54 billion in personal wealth. Then there's $30b more (tax...

 As predicted, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty took a pounding from voters in yesterday's primary election, losing to Vincent Gray who receiv...

Diane Ravitch, New York Review of Books My sense is that it has a lot to do with the administration’s connections to the Gates Foundation...

This is a case study of a much larger trend. Nationally, it's in the area of education that what Mike Klonsky calls "power phila...

Power philanthropy is co-piloting for a bumbling Michelle Rhee in D.C., writes Mark Schmitt at Politico . A consortium of private foundatio...

In our book, Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society , Susan Klonsky and I document the role of the giant power phi...

Wall Street Journal attacks Ford Foundation And yet the Ford press release contains not one mention of charter schools, vouchers, merit pay ...

Wal-Mart "associates" don't need a union, says CEO A wounded, wimpy Matt Lauer softballs new Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke on this ...

Will the super-rich save the world? There’s no doubt that the budget crunch is forcing schools and other areas of public space to become...