This week in the War on Workers: Billionaires try to buy LA school board election

Daily Kos writes, Michael Bloomberg is among the plutocrats pouring money into LA's school board elections. A group of billionaires and astroturf groups is trying to buy a Los Angeles school board election to expand the corporate education policy agenda in that city. One big goal is to defeat one-term incumbent and former teacher Steve Zimmer. The "Coalition for School Reform" has gotten $1 million from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But the group wasn't exactly broke before Bloomberg's contribution, according to the LA Times: Education and arts philanthropist Eli Broad leads the way with a contribution…

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