In her article, Ten Common Core Promoters Laughing All The Way To The Bank, Joy Pullmann discusses Joel Klein, who left his quarter-million annual salary as New York City schools chancellor to run News Corp.
In her article, Corporations helped fund Ducey transition, events, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez discusses Ducey’s “Leadership Summit” featuring Joel Klein and Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
It seems, that in his effort to push his pro-Common Core, pro-charter school agenda Arizona Governor Doug Ducey put on a dog and pony show and used something called the “protocol fund,” to cover the expenses.
The protocol fund is “a longstanding privately funded account controlled by the Governor’s Office for “promotion of state interests,” according to Sanchez. Sanchez writes that the donations to the fund mostly come from “private donors who gave to the governor’s transition effort.”
Sanchez reports that the “Leadership Summit,” which was held at University of Phoenix Stadium, is estimated to have cost about $30,000. Sanchez reports that the “complete details on the expenditures, which include production costs, lodging and travel for the speakers are expected to be released soon.
In light of the money Brooks and Klein have made off of promoting Common Core, it is hard to imagine that they would have charged speaker fees, but anything is possible in the lucrative education industrialized complex.
According to Pullman, Klein, who is betting that “Common Core would give its high-tech products instant access to a nationwide market,” makes $2 million annually, plus stock options, and the possibility of at least $1.5 million in annual bonuses (also a $1 million signing bonus), when he is not busy coauthoring “Common Core-supporting op-eds in the Wall Street Journal.”
Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), also joined Ducey. In her article, The American Enterprise Institute, Common Core, and ‘Good Cop,’ Mercedes Schneider writes that the Gates Foundation paid “AEI one million, in part to “explore the challenges of Common Core.”Schneider alleges that “If Gates really wanted AEI to critically address problems associated with CCSS, it would not have paid AEI to do so two years following CCSS completion. No, no. This is no critical appraisal of CCSS. This is CCSS promotion. Given its timing (two years following CCSS completion), the Gates-funded task for AEI is better read as: Exploring the Challenges of Selling the Common Core.”