"The Civil Rights Struggle of My Generation" - Who said it & what is it?

[Hannah Bell]

1. Robert Reffkin, 30, a vice president in the private equity department of Goldman Sachs
2. Charter schools


Hedge funders are one of the big interest groups pushing charter schools & privatization. I'm sure it's for the kids. I mean, Goldman is known for its selflessness and service to others.

Or maybe the fucks just want it all. Every little scrap you've got -- your health benefits, your pension, your Social Security, your Medicare, your little public union jobs, your national parks, your public lands, your public airways, your public utilities, your public roads, your unemployment benefits, your little local business, your mortgage, your house -- every last bit, they want everything.

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Scholarly Investments
By NANCY HASS
Published: December 4, 2009

THEIR company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts — members of a field known for secrecy — preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s. Balancing drinks on easels adorned with students’ colorful drawings, they juggled PDA’s and business cards, before sitting down to poker tables to raise money for New York City charter schools.

Working the room, the evening’s hosts, John Petry and Joel Greenblatt, who are partners in the hedge fund Gotham Capital, had an agenda: to identify new candidates to join their Success Charter Network, a cause they embrace with all the fervor of social reformers.

Mr. Petry, 38, and Mr. Greenblatt, 52, may spend their days poring over spreadsheets and overseeing trades, but their obsession — one shared with many other hedge funders — is creating charter schools, the tax-funded, independently run schools that they see as an entrepreneurial answer to the nation’s education woes. Charters have attracted benefactors from many fields. But it is impossible to ignore that in New York, hedge funds are at the movement’s epicenter...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/fashion/06charter.html

[midnight]

1. I have not read this side of the story.... I know there is a shake up in Milwaukee

schools... They have unfortunately been strapped for money, and populated by some of the neediest. So lots of hands up in the air, and maybe this? Not sure because I'm are not in Milwaukee, but will keep this in mind.....



Hedge funds... A strange product?