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Pat Hickey says:

Steve Diamond has been invaluable in shining the light on the academic cockroaches Ayers/Dohrn and their relationship with Obama.

However, I believe that he gives too much credit to the foundation boards and their formation process in last thirty years.

'Would Chicago area foundations like the MacArthur Foundation and the Pritzker Family Foundation, as well as major corporate and public donors, have provided $110 million in matching funds for such an agenda?

Could anyone have realistically expected such an agenda to have improved student outcomes?

Somehow I doubt it.

Rather, I think there was a more pressing purpose at the heart of the award and the support it engendered among certain elite institutions and individuals in Chicago. Ironically, while Kurtz wants to tar Obama with the red paint brush of the 60s "radical" Ayers, an understanding of the real purpose of the CAC indicates a much closer political alliance between Obama and Ayers.'

To the contrary, The Chicago Tribune and even the Sun Times ran series on the conflict between the radical members of boards - Woods Fund and MacArthur Foundation as well as Joyce being in open conflict with spirit and original mission of private family foundations.

The agenda serving appointees could care less about the families that funded the institutions - witness the dismissive toss of the hand by our gutless press -
'How could a radical like Ayers have influence over a Republican funded foundation like Annenberg?'

Gee, Cupcake I don't know. . . how baout doig your friggin jobs?

BTW- Public School Teachers Unions recoil at any intiative that requires work.