rich kid graduate of private Ivy League Prep Academy goes to Harvard and Cornell to earn degrees in government and public policy. She graduates in 1992 and is inspired to go join Teach For America and work in a poor urban elementary school, where she works miracles for all of three years before leaving teaching to become an expert on teaching, school administration and education reform. Miraculous as her teaching career, it pales in comparison to the massive infusion of private manna from heaven that allows her to found The New Teacher Project in 1997 and bankrolls her into the front desk as Chancellor of the DC public schools system in 2007, before being run out of town on a rail three years later. Undeterred she rises phoenix like on gilded foundation wings to found Students First, her second billionaire foundation funded front group while she still has time to join the transition team of Florida Governor Rick Scott and lay waste public K-12 spending in that state. Those primarily responsible for the millions and millions of dollars that have greased the skids of her ascent are the very top of the Illuminate billionaire pyramid: The Gates, DeVos, Walton and Broad foundations plus a glittering whos who of corporations and hedge funds, prominent among which is Bain Capital. The attached link is a donor list for TFA, Michele's first gig. TFA is the flag ship of the billionaires know best privatization movement with a funding stream of $244 million in 2012. This tip of the privatization spear was founded by another reptilian, Ivy League opportunists.
http://www.teachforamerica.org/support-us/donors
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