Who is Campbell Brown? And why is she telling lies about you?

ampbell Brown has become the new privatize public education and weaken unions. Its first darling of the wealthy elite who are try- mission? Eliminate tenure and your due process rights C ing to demonize teachers and under- through the New York state courts. Brown is not an edu- mine public education under the guise of “reform.” cator, has never attended public school nor is a parent A former cable television host, Brown has become of a public school student. Her statements about pub- the mouthpiece for the shadowy Partnership for lic education made on TV and quoted in print lack any Educational Justice (Brown refuses to say who her semblance of legitimacy and are patently false. So who Campbell Brown, former CNN host and founder of Partnership backers are) — a group believed to be connected to is she really speaking for? Here’s a snaphot of Brown for Educational Justice, sits on deep-pocketed privateers and profiteers who want to and her cronies: the board of Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools. She is married to Dan Senor. Michelle Rhee, former Joel Klein, former New York City schools CEO and founder of chancellor, heads Rupert Murdoch’s Students First, also NewsCorp’s education division. He’s on founded The New the boards of StudentsFirst and Teacher Project that has StudentsFirstNY. A massive email ties to Campbell Brown. scandal in 2010 revealed that Klein, as chancellor, bestowed Moskowitz special support for her charter network.

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is on the board of StudentsFirstNY. The group’s other Wall Street connections include Daniel Loeb and David Tepper. Jones wants to “save” public Dan Senor, hedge fund education by privatizing it, manager and a director of High-profile lawyer David according to Forbes, and has StudentsFirstNY, is married Boies is the board chairman financed Eva Moskowitz’s ad to Campbell Brown. His boss, of Brown’s Partnership for campaigns. billionaire Paul Singer, is a Educational Justice and is backer of Eva Moskowitz’s guiding the group’s legal Success Academy. strategy to bring lawsuits against states with strong tenure and seniority protections.

Eva Moskowitz, a former New York City council- woman, founded Success Academy Charter Schools in 2006 with backing from hedge fund managers Joel Greenblatt and John Petry, current members of the schools’ board that is chaired by hedge fund David Welch, Silicon Valley manager Daniel Loeb. millionaire who bankrolled the Moskowitz sits on the California lawsuit to eliminate tenure board of StudentsFirstNY. Carl Icahn, corporate raider and in that state, is rumored to be backing founder of four New York charter Brown’s New York lawsuit. At the very schools, is on the board of least he is giving her advice, the Wall StudentsFirstNY. Street Journal reports. Illustration www.nysut.org September – November 2014 | Page 17