Back story to the Harold Levy seminar.

I posted the invitation to the Harold Levy seminar previously. There is a back story.

On his blog, Schooling in the Ownership Society, Brother Mike provides:

It was Levy, in a NYT piece back in 2009, while working for Citigroup, who offered us his “5 ways to fix schools.”  At that time, I wrote,

Levy, who obviously hadn’t yet discovered the 5 ways while he was still in power, now wants to make it “mandatory” that all kids go to college for a year. I suppose he hopes that will keep them out of the job market and off the unemployment line for a while longer and hopes that the feds will pick up the cost of tuition ($8,000 average for state colleges and $25,000 for private). As for those kids who want to take a year off after high school, to work or travel? I suppose we could arrest their parents. How will this “fix” schools? Maybe Levy will tell us later.

Levy helped funnel $500K of DFER money to Shapton.

I also pointed out in the same post that,

Levy …helped engineer the back-do or shipment of $500K to [Al] Sharpton via hedge-fund school reformers DFER which apparently bought Sharpton’s temporary allegiance to the “bedfellows” club at EEP.

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