Clip: VOTE-COPE Campaign Financing. In Chatham, NY, $114,000 a year to control school. From 1989 to 2010 (2010 study) the Teacher’s Unions (NEA and AFT) were the #1 federal lobbyists.
Closing schools profits the Education Industry. Consolidation breeds unnecessary bonds, privatize school buildings, cut jobs & directs “consolidation savings” into capitalists hands.