Here. Read. Grrrrrr. Murdoch and NYC School Corruption

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http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-07-31/local/29852520_1_wireless-generation-million-no-bid-contract-potential-contractors



Rupert Murdoch given $27M no-bid contract from state Department of Education
BY RACHEL MONAHAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, July 31, 2011
More than a dozen private firms wanted to work on a project like the one the state Education Department is set to award to a Rupert Murdoch-owned company in a $27 million no-bid contract.

Agency officials have cited "an extremely challenging time line" in their decision to partner with News Corp. subsidiary Wireless Generation to build a data system of student test scores and other information.

The Daily News has learned that the agency has explored the project for at least two years - proof, critics say, state officials had ample time to competitively bid out the contract and still meet a fall 2012 deadline for a federal Race to the Top grant.

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He's a "reformer", you understand. A "school reformer.*

A *"reformer"*.

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1. Joel Klein is a Murdoch stooge...is Arne? n/t

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5. Where are the *#$@# conflict of interest laws?

>>>>A month earlier, Joel Klein had announced he was stepping down as the city schools chancellor to join News Corp., overseeing its budding education division.>>>

Every once in a while they send us ( NYC employees) a memo that looks like a cross between the Babylonian Talmud and the US IRS Tax Code ( long version) warning of dire consequences if we...say... after-school tutor a sibling of someone that USED to be in our class, within , say a two year period after the school relationship ends. All kinds of trivial 'conflict of interest' nonsense is catalogued, limited, regulated, proscribed.

Yet Klein walks out of DOE and directly into Murdoch's suite. Without even stopping to go to the bathroom.

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4. Rupert Murdoch is blackmailing someone? No bid contract....

I guess he will know how to use all that data in a way that has not cross the minds of the lessors...