“We have our cake, and are eating it too.” — Eli Broad
Dan Chang’s SuperPAC, formed to support erstwhile LAUSD candidate Alex “ALEC” Johnson, is now funding a new astroturf group to get his fellow Broad Urban Residency alum, Marshall Tuck, elected to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. Using the wonderful astroturf name “Parents for Marshall Tuck”, we can be sure that no authentic parents are running the Independent Expenditure (IE) funded by Chang’s Great Public Schools Los Angeles PAC. The new astroturf group’s twitter is https://twitter.com/parentsfortuck, you can access their website from there.
Broad Urban Residency graduates Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck combined have zero hours experience teaching in a public school classroom.
[…] Eli Broad-trained neoliberal operative Marshall Tuck is running for California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. The former Wall Street banker Tuck has never taught a day in his life, and has no background in pedagogy or child development, but he is financed by the corporate education plutocracy. Despite being the most profoundly unqualified candidate for the office, backing by reactionary billionaire has made for the possibility of him being elected. The doting corporate media has recklessly ignored the dismal performance of the schools he managed, the astonishing remediation rates of students he claimed were “college ready,” his racist shuttering of Ethnic Studies programs, and of Heritage/Dual Language Programs. All in all, Tuck’s record has been one of failure and bigotry. […]