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DESCRIPTION:7/21 Press  Conference Rally At Silicon Valley Corporate Office Of 
 "Student's Matter" Funder president David F. Welch\nGet Your Greedy Hands 
 Off Public Education! Stop The Charade-Millionaire/Billionaire Privatizers 
 Wrecking Public Education\nPublic Education Advocates, Education Workers & 
 Students Press Conference/Rally to Defend Public Education\nStop Corporate 
 Raiders Using The Courts To Attack Public School Teachers and Public 
 Education/Public Workers\nPrivatizers Out Of Public Education Now! 
 Corporate Controlled "Students First versus Public Education\n\nMonday July 
 21, 2014 12:00 Noon\n\nCorporate Mogul And Privatizer David F. 
 Welch\nSilicon Valley Infinera World Headquarters\n140 Caspian 
 Ct.\nSunnyvale 94089\n\n\nMillionaire Tech Mogols Busting Up Public 
 Education For Profiteering\n\nDavid F. Welch/Students Matter-Stop Attacking 
 Public Education\nWelch/Students Matter Backed By Walmart Walton Family, 
 Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation And Silicon Valley Billionaires\n\nIn 
 the recent Vergara California court decision, a major attack was launched 
 on public school teachers tenure.  This reactionary lawsuit was funded by 
 the corporate controlled Students Matter organization controlled by David 
 F. Welsh who is one of owners of Infinera .  The court ruled that seniority 
 of teachers is discriminatory. Students Matter is a front group funded by 
 one of the founders of Infinera in Sunnyvale California David F. Welch. 
 Welch and other millionaire and billionaires from the Walton Foundation 
 which owns Walmart, the Broad Foundation and the Gates Foundation are 
 intent on privatizing education using charters, testing scams benefiting 
 Pearson Inc. and Silicon Valley billionaires. They want more computers in 
 educations instead of hiring more teachers and education support workers. 
 In 2013, Welch  made $2.39 million in the fiber optics communications 
 industry, and lives in a house worth over $10 million in Atherton, one of 
 Silicon Valley's most expensive zip codes.\nCalifornia at the same time  
 spends the least on public education of 46 states and these 1%ers want less 
 taxes from the billionaires. Instead they want more money into their 
 pockets instead of hiring more teachers and taking care of the  millions of 
 students  in poverty and their families who face dire economic and social 
 conditions caused by the drive for more profits.\n\nThe closure of 
 thousands of public schools throughout the country and the opening of 
 privately run charters but publicly funded has furthered segregation. The 
 large majority of closed public schools have been in Black and Latino 
 communities and the lack of stable public schools has seriously harmed 
 professional public education.\nThese corporate moguls  want charter 
 schools which have no transparency and oversight and are diverting billions 
 of public taxes  to private owners like the Green Dot corporation, Rocket 
 Ship Schools run by the KIPP Foundation controlled by the Fisher family 
 which owns the GAP corporation.\nThe group's advisory board boasts Ben 
 Austin, the founder of Parent Revolution and cheerleader for the parent 
 triggers laws that some have argued continue to privatize public education 
 under the guise of parent choice.The California Charter Schools Association 
 was also on a list of early backers forStudents Matter.\nStudentsmatter.org 
 files its IRS forms under the title Students First Foundation, which shares 
 a name with former chancellor of Washington DC's schools, and outspoken 
 education privatization proponent, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst.org. 
 Welch's personal foundation, the David and Heidi Welch Foundation, has also 
 contributed $550,000 to Rhee's Students First lobby, according to 
 California investigative website Capital & Main. \nRhee is under   
 investigation for lying about her testing schemes in Washington D.C. such 
 as "Common Core" which has been funded by the Gates Foundation and other 
 privatizers who are pushing charters, more testing and untrained teachers 
 from outfits like "Teach For America" pushed by the Obama administration 
 and anti-labor US  Education Secretary Arnie Duncan. \nThese education 
 privatizers and union busters  now are funding similar suits in New York 
 and states throughout the country. Unfortunately in California the CTA and 
 CFT agreed with them in the courts that the real problem was bad teachers. 
 This is hogwash. The problem is extreme poverty,  violence in poor 
 communities and lack of funding for high quality public education. The US 
 Obama Administration and Republicans are spending hundreds of billions for 
 more wars around the world but is cutting back on public education and 
 public services through privatization and outsourcing for poverty slave 
 wages. These policies are destroying the lives of millions of students and 
 their families. We need to end public funding for charters and other 
 privatization schemes and put our public funds into more teachers and 
 education workers to defend public education.\n\n\nEndorsed By\nUnited 
 Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info\nVoices Against Privatizing 
 Education\nhttps://www.facebook.com/CitizensForEducationRestoration?ref=hl&ref_type=bookmark\nFor 
 more information call (415)282-1908\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/16/18758710.php
SUMMARY:Press Conference Rally At Silicon Valley Corporate Office Of "Student's Matter" Funder pr
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Infinera World Headquarters\n140 Caspian Ct.\nSunnyvale 
 94089\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/16/18758710.php
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