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MARYLAND ASSEMBLY and BALTIMORE CITY HALL like each US state has been captured by LAWYERS as legislators-----these few decades LAWYERS as POLS became global corporate lawyers. That is NOT all-American. This is what places our local governance structure into GLOBAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE reporting to GLOBAL CORPORATE TRIBUNALS.

We discussion specifically EDUCATION PUBLIC POLICY and focusing on what effect that has on our PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY structure. The effect is this:

OUR US PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY IS JOB TRAINING----HUMAN RESOURCES---APPRENTICESHIP pre-K----career.

We want to take this ONE ARTICLE to highlight how our US DEMOCRATIC PARTY is SO DYSFUNCTIONAL as it pretends to be sovereign US civil rights while being ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE GLOBAL CORPORATE UNITED NATIONS.

Let's look at one pathway to PAY-TO--PLAY which happens in this global neo-liberal education corporation funding. INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP SOLUTIONS is a global corporation tied to HUMAN RESOURCES----tied to CORPORATE JOB TRAINING----and identifying leadership for global corporations----

HUMANIM IS A GLOBAL NGO----UNITED NATIONS-----GLOBAL LABOR POOL DEVELOPMENT.

Nothing having to do with PUBLIC EDUCATION is tied to anything in this article.

Below is a statement of ETHICS AND LEGALITY around the current Baltimore election dealing with people working for POLITICAL MACHINES.



'The Brew was ejected from the room by Karenthia Barber, a party official, who let members of the public enter, but said the media was not allowed at the request of Humanim, the non-profit that owns the building'.



'ROCKEYMOORE FUNDING GROUP'.

INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP SOLUTIONS is tied to a global investment fund which started as a TEXAS political machine ROCKEYMOORE now tied to MARYLAND DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE with CUMMINGS.

ROCKEYMOORE AND CUMMINGS have been identified for criminal activities.




'Education

Dr. Harvey received his PhD in Organizational Psychology and a Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Hampton University.

He has approximately twenty years experience providing organizational development, education/training, and human resources research services to a wide array of organizations'.

Darrell Harvey, Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)

Darrell Harvey is president of Integrated Leadership Solutions, LLC, a Washington, DC consulting firm that provides organizational consulting and education services to public, private, and non-profit organizations. He has approximately twenty years experience providing organizational development, education/training, and human resources research services to a wide array of organizations. This work has included leadership development, organizational assessment and change, team effectiveness, conflict management, design and validation of personnel selection and performance management processes, and the development and delivery of training programs.

A partial list of Mr. Harvey’s clients includes NCR, IBM, KEI Pearson, EDS, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the USDA Graduate School, the Defense Logistics Agency, WMATA, Management Support Technologies, Inc., the Department of Energy, as well as the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, Office of the City Administrator, and Office of Contracts and Procurement. Recent consulting engagements have included coaching and feedback workshops for federal managers, partnership development and conflict management services for a private sector strategic partnership, a variety of leadership development and team effectiveness classes for public sector managers and executives, and the administration/analysis of a membership survey of a non-profit organization.

Mr. Harvey is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University where he is a faculty member in two ongoing Certificate in Public Management programs, develops and conducts leadership simulations for federal and municipal managers, and oversees action learning projects in which teams of managers conduct year-long policy analyses of pressing public policy issues. He has also been recognized by the Graduate School-USDA as a Distinguished Adjunct Faculty member for consistently receiving excellent evaluations from his students. In addition, he has also taught business statistics at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, MD.

Prior to starting his practice, Darrell spent over eight years providing internal consulting, training/development, and human resources research services at leading private sector firms such as Merrill Lynch (senior research manager) and The Prudential (senior organizational consultant). He holds a Masters of Science degree in Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology with Highest Honors from Hampton Institute. He received the PhD from Pennsylvania State University, where he focused on leadership, conflict, and performance in organizational teams.

Education

Dr. Harvey received his PhD in Organizational Psychology and a Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Hampton University.



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Nowhere in this discussion is someone tied to PUBLIC EDUCATION----all tied to GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT----------'organizational psychology' -----is what is HITTING ME------with illegal surveillance and 24/7 video PORN with illegal surveillance and 24/7 video PORN......psycho-sexual torture working for political machines.

.'Dr. Harvey received his PhD in Organizational Psychology and a Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University '


This BALTIMORE SUN OPINION post is correct in calling these constant statements of WHITE SUPREMACY----FAKE NEWS---civil unrest civil war by global banking 5% freemason/Greek black players who work for global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS who are WHITE SUPREMACISTS-----as too HOGAN/O'MALLEY/CLINTON/OBAMA/REAGAN.

Maryland neo-liberals are REAGANOMICS -----Clinton was REAGAN as a neo-liberal.  Hogan is a global banking NEO-LIBERAL pretending to be Republican.

Calling attention to widespread criminal and corrupt actions in BALTIMORE CITY is REAL INFORMATION especially when tied to our MARYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING.  The KIRWAN COMMISSION sending more funding to low-income schools all being taken by global neo-liberal education charter chains----already known to be acting criminally and corruptly-----is a good education policy stance.


Trickle down REAGAN ----is trickle down CLINTON-----OBAMA IS REAGAN----because neo-liberalism was ROBBER BARON sacking and looting, raping and pillaging-------as ROCKEYMOORE/CUMMINGS and DR HARVEY know.




Alternative Fact of the Week: Larry Hogan as Reagan Republican/white supremacist


By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board
Mar 21, 2019 | 10:00 AM

Gov. Larry Hogan said this week that he comes from the "Ronald Reagan school of politics." In the view of the Maryland Democratic Party, that makes him a "dog whistle white nationalist." (Hogan photo by Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun)



There is no question that Gov. Larry Hogan made loaded statements and accusations in a rant earlier this week when he, among other things, accused Democrats of being on the side of violent criminals rather than keeping the citizens of Maryland safe. If you were, say, the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party and looking for something to criticize, he gave you plenty of material.



Which is why we were surprised that Maya Rockeymoore Cummings went after the one thing Governor Hogan said that could have come out of the mouth of any member of his party at any point in the last 29 years — that he ascribes to “the Ronald Reagan school of politics.” Seriously, it must be a union requirement for GOP politicians to pay homage to the Gipper.


'Obama Is the New Reagan - The Daily Beastwww.thedailybeast.com/obama-is-the-new-reagan Jul 14, 2017 · Obama Is the New Reagan Now Barack Obama has been elected, he can begin to work as the transformative president he said he wanted to be. When he declared that ambition on the primary trail, he...'






But in Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings’ estimation, that makes him a “dog whistle white nationalist,” according to her own sharply worded statement in response to Mr. Hogan’s remarks. The thought-train goes like this: Mr. Hogan compared himself to Reagan. Reagan used terms like “welfare queens” and other racially charged language. Ergo, Larry Hogan is a white nationalist.





Congratulations, Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings, you are the proud author of the Alternative Fact of the Week.



'Governor Larry Hogan Meets With Vice Premier Madame Liu Yandong in China
Leaders Discuss Ongoing Cooperation Between Maryland and China

BEIJING, CHINA (June 1, 2015) – Governor Larry Hogan met with Vice Premier Madame Liu Yandong in Zhongnanhai, which serves as the central headquarters for the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Madame Yandong is the vice premier of the State Council and a member of the Political Bureau (Politburo) of the China Central Committee. They were joined by First Lady Yumi Hogan, Secretary of State John Wobensmith, Secretary of the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs Jimmy Rhee, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Business and Economic Development Ben Wu, University of Maryland, Baltimore President Dr. Jay Perman, and Christy Wyskiel, senior advisor to Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels'.






According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “white nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.”

The Anti-Defamation League describes white nationalism as a term “that originated among white supremacists as a euphemism for white supremacy” and that some supremacists have further defined it as a movement that “emphasizes defining a country or region by white racial identity and which seeks to promote the interests of whites exclusively, typically at the expense of people of other backgrounds.”



Was Governor Hogan promoting a whites-only America? No.



But a bit of political hyperbole from a party chairwoman isn’t usually enough to win Alternative Fact of the Week honors. What really elevated this particular bit of rhetoric was the fact that there were so many more objectionable things Mr. Hogan said this week than proclaiming his fealty to the 40th president. Did he say things that were “insensitive” and “irresponsible,” as the Democratic chairwoman purported? And could his words exacerbate negative stereotypes? We’re with her there.

BALTIMORE CITY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE PUSHED FOR POLICE WITH GUNS IN SCHOOLS AS WELL---THAT IS A NEO-LIBERAL SCHOOL POLICY.



Mr. Hogan was irked with legislators who voted to kill a bill that would have allowed Baltimore school police officers to carry guns inside school buildings, and he ranted about lawmakers who have criticized the idea of mandatory sentencing for violent criminals. The Democrats who oppose those measures believe we need to employ a more holistic approach that addresses the root causes of crime, such as poverty and a lack of job opportunities. Two different philosophies from Republicans and Democrats. No surprise there.


What was surprising is how thin-skinned the governor seemed in his abrasive response. Calling these lawmakers “the most pro-criminal group of legislators I’ve ever seen” because they have a different view on how to fight crime was mean-spirited and insulting. Never have we heard a Democrat say they want more criminals on the streets or that they endorse more shootings, rapes and robberies.

EXCEPT THAT GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON/OBAMA NEO-LIBERALS CREATED US CITIES AS FAILED STATES LEADING TO ALL THE ABOVE BEHAVIOR.

PRO-CRIMINAL ---YES, WE CANNOT HOLD THE INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT ACCOUNTABLE----SO, NEO-LIBERAL ARE PRO-CRIMINAL.



Mr. Hogan certainly needs to be careful about his choice of language. In Maryland, crime is often associated with majority-black Baltimore and its high murder rates. What exactly was Mr. Hogan trying to say with his “pro-criminal” terminology?

BALTIMORE IS KNOWN ACROSS THE STATE FOR INSTITUTIONAL FRAUDS AND CORRUPTION.


Mr. Hogan also balked at a $3.8 billion, 10-year-plan to boost education spending under a proposal from the Kirwan Commission, saying he would not approve another dollar for education without “significant accountability measures attached.” Ian Haney-Lopez, who has written a book about dog whistle politics, often talks about how Republicans use vows of no tax increases or promises of tax cuts to signal that they will not easily back programs that seem to support minorities and disadvantaged groups. We should point out the Kirwan Commission proposal would focus on funding the most disadvantaged schools.


Words matter, and if the governor is the true moderate alternative to President Donald Trump as he claims, he should be more careful about his rhetoric — and mindful about the impact of his policies on racial justice.


But calling him a white supremacist is also not the right tact. There was enough to criticize about what the governor said without going down that road.


When a Washington Post reporter recently asked Mr. Hogan if he shares Trump’s nationalism, he responded by shaking his head in disapproval. He also called for the resignation of Del. Mary Ann Lisanti after it was revealed she used a racial slur to describe a Prince George’s County neighborhood and took the same stand against Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia who dressed up in blackface in medical school.


We think that both Mr. Hogan and Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings might want to admit that hyperbole got the best of them this time.


____________________________________________



Having Baltimore CLINTON/OBAMA neo-liberals calling HOGAN or TRUMP a WHITE SUPREMACIST and white NATIONALIST is UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK----civil unrest civil war TALKING POINTS. 

HOGAN is a raging global neo-liberal ONE WORLD ONE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE------taking Maryland to colonial status just as ROCKEYMOORE/CUMMINGS.

HOGAN married to an Asian woman because he has interests in global corporations over in CHINESE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----as does TRUMP neither being WHITE NATIONALISTS.



But in Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings’ estimation, that makes him a “dog whistle white nationalist,” according to her own sharply worded statement in response to Mr. Hogan’s remarks. The thought-train goes like this: Mr. Hogan compared himself to Reagan. Reagan used terms like “welfare queens” and other racially charged language. Ergo, Larry Hogan is a white nationalist.

WELFARE QUEENS today are global corporations-----especially in BALTIMORE-----this turn is no longer tied to our US POOR because all safety nets tied to welfare are ALMOST TOTALLY DISMANTLED.  As CUMMINGS/ROCKEYMOORE know-----in Baltimore you don't get medicare or medicaid from US FEDERAL AGENCIES-----you get USED ------by global corporations.

WHY AM I GETTING HIT-----CRIMINALLY IMPLANTED WITH MEDICAL DEVICES ------BECAUSE BALTIMORE HAS WELFARE QUEENS AS MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.

OBAMA IS REAGAN-----ROCKEYMOORE IS OBAMA----HOGAN IS REAGAN.


MEANWHILE all this talk is tied to Maryland education public policy and funding-----by politicians who could care less about PUBLIC K-12 students/parents/teachers.

All this while both HOGAN AND ROCKEYMOORE are PRETENDING to care about poor students---or public schools.


Alternative Fact of the Week: Larry Hogan as Reagan Republican/white supremacist


By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board
Mar 21, 2019 | 10:00 AM

Gov. Larry Hogan said this week that he comes from the "Ronald Reagan school of politics."




THAT IS REAL INFORMATION ----REAGAN/CLINTON ARE BOTH GLOBAL BANKING 1% NO-LIBERALS.

In the view of the Maryland Democratic Party, that makes him a "dog whistle white nationalist." (Hogan photo by Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun)There is no question that Gov. Larry Hogan made loaded statements and accusations in a rant earlier this week when he, among other things, accused Democrats of being on the side of violent criminals rather than keeping the citizens of Maryland safe. If you were, say, the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party and looking for something to criticize, he gave you plenty of material.



Which is why we were surprised that Maya Rockeymoore Cummings went after the one thing Governor Hogan said that could have come out of the mouth of any member of his party at any point in the last 29 years — that he ascribes to “the Ronald Reagan school of politics.” Seriously, it must be a union requirement for GOP politicians to pay homage to the Gipper.

But in Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings’ estimation, that makes him a “dog whistle white nationalist,” according to her own sharply worded statement in response to Mr. Hogan’s remarks. The thought-train goes like this: Mr. Hogan compared himself to Reagan. Reagan used terms like “welfare queens” and other racially charged language. Ergo, Larry Hogan is a white nationalist.


Congratulations, Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings, you are the proud author of the Alternative Fact of the Week.


According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “white nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.”

The Anti-Defamation League describes white nationalism as a term “that originated among white supremacists as a euphemism for white supremacy” and that some supremacists have further defined it as a movement that “emphasizes defining a country or region by white racial identity and which seeks to promote the interests of whites exclusively, typically at the expense of people of other backgrounds.”


Was Governor Hogan promoting a whites-only America? No.


But a bit of political hyperbole from a party chairwoman isn’t usually enough to win Alternative Fact of the Week honors. What really elevated this particular bit of rhetoric was the fact that there were so many more objectionable things Mr. Hogan said this week than proclaiming his fealty to the 40th president. Did he say things that were “insensitive” and “irresponsible,” as the Democratic chairwoman purported? And could his words exacerbate negative stereotypes? We’re with her there.


Mr. Hogan was irked with legislators who voted to kill a bill that would have allowed Baltimore school police officers to carry guns inside school buildings, and he ranted about lawmakers who have criticized the idea of mandatory sentencing for violent criminals. The Democrats who oppose those measures believe we need to employ a more holistic approach that addresses the root causes of crime, such as poverty and a lack of job opportunities. Two different philosophies from Republicans and Democrats. No surprise there.



What was surprising is how thin-skinned the governor seemed in his abrasive response. Calling these lawmakers “the most pro-criminal group of legislators I’ve ever seen” because they have a different view on how to fight crime was mean-spirited and insulting. Never have we heard a Democrat say they want more criminals on the streets or that they endorse more shootings, rapes and robberies.



Mr. Hogan certainly needs to be careful about his choice of language. In Maryland, crime is often associated with majority-black Baltimore and its high murder rates. What exactly was Mr. Hogan trying to say with his “pro-criminal” terminology?


Mr. Hogan also balked at a $3.8 billion, 10-year-plan to boost education spending under a proposal from the Kirwan Commission, saying he would not approve another dollar for education without “significant accountability measures attached.” Ian Haney-Lopez, who has written a book about dog whistle politics, often talks about how Republicans use vows of no tax increases or promises of tax cuts to signal that they will not easily back programs that seem to support minorities and disadvantaged groups. We should point out the Kirwan Commission proposal would focus on funding the most disadvantaged schools.


Words matter, and if the governor is the true moderate alternative to President Donald Trump as he claims, he should be more careful about his rhetoric — and mindful about the impact of his policies on racial justice.


But calling him a white supremacist is also not the right tact. There was enough to criticize about what the governor said without going down that road.


When a Washington Post reporter recently asked Mr. Hogan if he shares Trump’s nationalism, he responded by shaking his head in disapproval. He also called for the resignation of Del. Mary Ann Lisanti after it was revealed she used a racial slur to describe a Prince George’s County neighborhood and took the same stand against Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia who dressed up in blackface in medical school.


We think that both Mr. Hogan and Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings might want to admit that hyperbole got the best of them this time.

_______________________________________________

At the time HOGAN PRETENDING to be a right wing conservative fighting for ACCOUNTABILITY of public education funds KNOWS all that funding tied  to KIRWAN COMMISSION is going to global neo-liberal corporate education charter chains which HOGAN champions with the education bills HE PUSHES.  HOGAN PUSHING GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CORPORATE CHARTER CHAINS while pretending to care about education funding reaching POOR STUDENT SCHOOLS.



Mr. Hogan also balked at a $3.8 billion, 10-year-plan to boost education spending under a proposal from the Kirwan Commission, saying he would not approve another dollar for education without “significant accountability measures attached.”

The problem with education funding in Baltimore not reaching our PUBLIC K-12 is the CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS in the city which have these few decades criminal misappropriated to expand corporate schools overseas----as HOGAN and ROCKEYMOORE both know.

without “significant accountability measures attached.”'


This brings us back to HOGAN and ROCKEYMOORE pushing the end of local and state OFFICE OF INSPECTION GENERAL------going to global corporate boards----where NO ACCOUNTABILITY by 99% WE THE CITIZENS OF MARYLAND OR BALTIMORE will be included.


The global governing board at the mid-level has this one LAW FIRM GLOBAL CORPORATION working for only the GLOBAL CORPORATE TRIBUNAL who owns and controls these global neo-liberal corporate charter chains owned by global hedge funds and investment firms operating under WORLD BANK.

HOGAN AND ROCKEYMOORE BOTH KNOW THAT DLA PIPER WOULD BE THE LAWYERS HOLDING BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACCOUNTABLE----WHICH IT HAS NOT FOR THESE FEW DECADES.



Global law firm with offices in more than 40 countries


DLA Piper is the leading global business law firm in Sweden. The Stockholm office employs 160 people, of which over 110 are lawyers. The firm provides legal advice in all areas of business law, which includes: corporate, banking and finance, IT, media, intellectual property, tax, M&A, capital markets, transport and logistics, private equity, litigation, real estate, insurance, regulatory, insolvency and employment.


This is the institutional structure which has allowed massive fraud and corruption in Baltimore City to misappropriate----make disappear any and all funds coming to Baltimore----especially tied to FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL public school funding.




'He has also served as Maryland legislative counsel to many Fortune 500 companies'.

TIBURZI of DLA PIPER works for those FORTUNE 500 CORPORATIONS which are quickly becoming those global neo-liberal corporate charter chains replacing our US PUBLIC K-12. TIBURZI replaces Stephanie Hill who worked for LOCKHEED MARTIN.  So, these people are global human resources------vocational training pre-K to career ----NOT US PUBLIC SCHOOLS ---K-12.


DLA Piper's Paul A. Tiburzi Elected Chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee Board of Directors

12/8/17
Paul A. Tiburzi


DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Paul A. Tiburzi has been unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC). The GBC is an organization of business and civic leaders concerned with issues relating to economic growth, job creation, workforce development, transportation and quality of life. He succeeds outgoing GBC Chairwoman, Stephanie Hill, senior vice president for Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin.


Tiburzi, a Baltimore native whose father was a Baltimore City Police sergeant, is chair of the firm's State Public Policy and Administrative Law practice. For many years he served as managing partner of the firm's Baltimore office.



Tiburzi focuses his practice on public law, sports law and administrative litigation matters. He has appeared before most of Maryland's administrative agencies and has handled appellate litigation arising from administrative decisions. Tiburzi has counseled clients, including professional sports teams, on political and financing issues related to the development and use of stadiums and sports venues.

He has also served as Maryland legislative counsel to many Fortune 500 companies.



"Paul is a lawyer's lawyer and a strong advocate for Baltimore," said Brett Ingerman, DLA Piper's Baltimore office managing partner. "Paul's efforts in support of the GBC are a reflection of our firm’s commitment to our clients in the region."


Tiburzi joined Piper and Marbury in 1981 after clerking for Harrison L. Winter, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He has spent his entire career at the firm.


Tiburzi offered the following statement on his election: "It is a singular and unique honor to be elected chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee. I accept this role with enthusiasm and optimism. The GBC has always been a special organization to me personally, to my law firm and to all of greater Baltimore. For over 60 years the GBC has made Baltimore a better place to live and work. I will work to continue that tradition. Baltimore should be, and can be, the greatest, safest, city in the country. We plan to be active, vocal and aggressive to make that happen. Working with Mayor Catherine Pugh and Governor Larry Hogan, the GBC will be a force for change and renewal for our city and region."


Tiburzi has been included in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2006 and was named Best Lawyers' 2014 and 2018 Baltimore Government Relations Practice Lawyer of the Year. He has also repeatedly been honored by the Maryland Daily Record, receiving its award for Most Admired CEO in 2013 for his leadership of the firm's Baltimore office. In 2008, the Daily Record named him one of its 2008 Influential Marylanders, based on influence, prominence, achievement and community involvement, and in 2005, he received the Daily Record's Leadership in the Law honor, acknowledging the outstanding nature of his practice and his leadership in the Maryland legal community. He was also selected by Leaders in Law to receive the Top Leadership in Law Award for 2005.


Tiburzi is a graduate of Loyola Blakefield, Loyola University and the University of Maryland School of Law. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

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REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES are not the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS police---we are not ones who think our working class and poor students need special attention other than having EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS to the same funding and schools everyone else does helping each child achieve to the potential.  We created soaring free market economies able to employ all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE in stable, well-paid jobs.

We did not create WELFARE FOR LIFE---DISABILITY FOR LIFE as US FAILED STATES killed our US economy------creating an excuse for what is FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL EDUCATION taking our strong public K-12 to being a MASSIVE BIG GOVERNMENT agency filled with crime and corruption as all these education agencies were OUTSOURCED-----PRIVATIZED ---AND CONNECTED TO PAY-TO-PLAY POLITICAL MACHINE manipulations.



This is to where all our US PUBLIC PRE-K through career funding will go.

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THINK ABOUT MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE AS GLOBAL CORPORATE SCHOOLS----this structure as MARYLAND STATE PUBLIC EDUCATION will disappear because it should never have been our public K-12-------

All of KIRWAN COMMISSION extra funding will now be sent to global corporations pretending to address all these

CATEGORIES OF US STUDENTS ----FOR GOODNESS SAKE.



This BIG GOVERNMENT is REAGAN NEO-LIBERALISM-----global banking created such a network of agencies each able to channel education funding any which way but to classrooms-----killing our US public schools. Now all that funding will be channeled to global corporations replacing those dastardly global banking 5% freemason/Greek players----HOGAN OR ROCKEYMOORE.



STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


[photo, Karen B. Salmon, Maryland Interim State Superintendent of Schools] KAREN B. SALMON, Ph.D., State Superintendent of Schools

Office of State Superintendent
State Department of Education
Nancy S. Grasmick State Education Building, 200 West Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201 - 2595
(410) 767-0462; fax: (410) 333-2226
e-mail: karen.salmon@maryland.gov
web: http://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Pages/SuperintendentBio.aspx




State Superintendent of Schools since July 1, 2016 (interim superintendent, June 1-30, 2016).

Secretary-Treasurer, State Board of Education, 2016-. Deputy State Superintendent for School Effectiveness, 2016 (assistant superintendent for college & career readiness, 2015-16; interim deputy state superintendent, 2016).

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2016-;



Children's Cabinet, 2016-. Chair, School Safety

Subcabinet, 2018-. Chair, Interagency Committee on School Construction, 2016-18; Coordinating Council for Juvenile Services Educational Programs, 2016-; Superintendent's Family Engagement Council, 2016-. Co-Chair, Maryland Partnership for Children in Nature, 2016-17;

Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) Schools Stakeholder Work Group, 2016-.

Member, Task Force to Study the Adult High School Concept, 2016-17; Commission to Review Maryland's Use of Assessments and Testing in Public Schools, 2016-17;

Task Force to Study the Implementation of a Dyslexia Education Program, 2016-17; Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness, 2016-17;

Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs, 2016-17; Chair, Governing Board, Maryland Center for School Safety, 2016-18.

Member, Advisory Council for Alternative Response, 2016-; Behavioral Health Advisory Council, 2016-; State Child Fatality Review Team, 2016-; State Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council, 2016-; Commission on Climate Change, 2016-; College Savings Plans of Maryland Board, 2016; Correctional Education Council, 2016-; Interagency Disabilities Board, 2016-; Maryland Education Council, 2016-; Maryland State Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, 2016-; Governor's Family Violence Council, 2016-; Financial Education and Capability Commission, 2016-; Maryland 529 Board, 2016-; Interagency Food Desert Advisory Committee, 2016-; Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, 2016-; Governor's Inter-Agency Heroin and Opioid Coordinating Council, 2016-; Governor's Commission on Hispanic Affairs, 2016-; Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2016-; State Coordinating Committee for Human Services Transportation, 2016-; Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, 2016-; Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center Governing Board, 2016-; Council on Open Data, 2016-; P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland, 2016-; Council for the Procurement of Health, Educational and Social Services, 2016-; Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, 2016-; Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers, 2016-; Work Group to Study Safe Harbor Policy for Youth Victims of Human Trafficking, 2016-19. Member, Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism, 2016-; Interagency Committee on Specialized Transportation, 2016-; Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2016-; Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission, 2016-; State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, 2016-. Member, Governor's Workforce Development Board (formerly Governor's Workforce Investment Board), 2016-; Advisory Council on Workforce Shortage, 2016-; Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee, 2016-; Interagency Transition Council for Youth with Disabilties, 2016-; Two-Generation Family Economic Security Commission, 2017-18; Work Group on Health in All Policies, 2017-19; Commission on the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Restorative Practices, 2017-19; State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness, 2017-. Chair, State Early Childhood Advisory Council, 2017- (member, 2016-). Co-Chair, Project Green Classrooms Initiative, 2017-. Member, Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, 2017-. Chair, Work Group on the Assessment and Funding of School Facilities, 2018-; Interagency Commission on School Construction, 2018-; Juvenile Services Education Programs Work Group, 2018-. Member, Juvenile Justice Reform Council, 2019-; Commission to Study Mental and Behavioral Health in Maryland, 2019-; Maryland Opportunity Zone Leadership Task Force, 2019-; Work Group to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors, 2019-. Chair, Work Group to Study the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2019-; Student Data Privacy Council, 2019-.


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KILL THE LAWYERS ----not really has long been a solution t STOPPING MOVING FORWARD since most of these few decades of ROBBER BARON sacking and looting----taking US to colonial status----connections of US governance to GLOBAL GOVERNING BOARDS-----ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE-----has been done by CORPORATE LAWYERS...now GLOBAL CORPORATE LAWYERS.
If our STATE and LOCAL government and our political machines are captured by LAWYERS-----LAW FIRMS---GLOBAL LAW FIRMS then KILLING THE LAWYERS if not done by US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown----will be done by ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID for only global 1% and corporations.
LAWYER BOTS-------LEGAL AVATARS-------POLITICIANS REPLACED BY AVATARS ----WILL BE THE FUTURE OF COLONIAL FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE GOVERNANCE.

'A.I. Is Doing Legal Work. But It Won’t Replace Lawyers, Yet.


James Yoon, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, Calif., says people are willing to pay for his experience.

“What clients don’t want to pay for is any routine work.”

Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times

By Steve Lohr
March 19, 2017
Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley’s next victim'

Almost every category of MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ----disappears as education becomes human resources pre-K---to career where WORKERS at ALL LEVELS have NO RIGHTS----NO LEGAL DEALING.


EDUCATION as global human resources has no rights for 99.9% of WE THE PEOPLE to REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE education.

Who's Killing the Great Lawyers of Harvard?
Why would anybody in his right mind take the most potent professional degree in the world and just throw it away?

Case in point: the Class of 1990. Ten years ago, the world was theirs to do with as they pleased. Now, well, they're dying out there.


By Robert Kurson
Jan 29, 2007


Every year, thousands of the most perfect young Americans apply for admission to Harvard Law School. And every year, the fabled institution of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Kissinger, and five ninths of the current Supreme Court, the school whose name inspires reverence from garbagemen and presidents alike, replies with a thin envelope containing a single sheet of woven-cotton stationery that says, essentially, Fuck you.


Harvard Law School seeks inner beauty. It desires passion, creativity, interestingness in its applicants and thinks nothing of rejecting Yale's top undergrad if that undergrad is an anal-retentive bore. Furious parents of straight-A student-council presidents have been known to make the pilgrimage to Cambridge to demand justice for their rejected offspring, and admissions officers might gently suggest the word intangibles to explain the kid's shortcomings. Hip Harvard Law School students take in the spectacle and smirk.



Smirking, in fact, might be the official facial expression
of Harvard Law School. At least it was when I was graduated from there ten years ago. And why not? As a Harvard Law student, you've got the world by the balls. The degree, the most potent, fearsome weapon in all of academia, confers upon its holder a near guarantee of riches, freedom, prestige, and happiness. Listening to those parents hopelessly invoking the virtues of their well-bred sons and daughters, we knew we had it made. We knew we were the complete package. We knew we were golden.



THE CLASS MOTHER HEN sends me the phone directory he's been compiling. He doesn't flinch at the word souls when I tell him I'm interested in exploring what happened to the souls of the class of '90. "Get ready to be depressed, man," he says. "You won't find all that many people, at least those still in law, who love their lives."


I open the directory. There's the guy who impaled himself on the metal volleyball spike during an intramural basketball game. Here's the math major who, in surveying the women in our class, lamented that "at Harvard Law, it appears brains times beauty equals a constant." There's Andrea, maybe the most brilliant mind in the class, who included this melancholy note by her entry: "So much for visions of changing the world . . ."


I reach a guy who went to divinity school in order to resolve inner questions that cropped up about the universe. "You start dealing with those issues," he says. "You can't show up in a law firm and really care about another merger." I catch up with a roommate who ditched his firm to become a big shot at Motown and is now the point man at a risky Internet start-up. An old buddy, suffering as a real estate lawyer, tells me that he fantasizes about using the blood money he's saved to buy a "faraway convenience store."


A former hippie type now writes the television program The Street and an occasional Ally McBeal. He has no job security, but he's happier than hell and couldn't fathom going back to law. A woman who loved science fiction and crossword puzzles left law to sell cruises and is now a part-time secretary with a temp agency. "A failure, I know," she says, "but I'm finding myself--and at least I'm out of the firms." One partner at one of the country's fanciest firms confides that he's finalizing plans to quit his job. "I'll go crazy if I stay," he says. "But please don't print anything more about me. If my plan folds, I'll still need the firm."


One after another, those who have left law, especially law firms, seem happy. Those who have not are suffering or, worse, resigned. They talk about losing themselves. These are strange times in the workplace, and one need only look to Harvard Law School for example. Harvard doesn't keep such statistics, so it's difficult to tell with precision, but a look through the current class directory reveals that fewer than half the members of the Class of 1990 work in firms and roughly a quarter of those with entries do not appear to practice law. Young people for whom the world of work opened its arms as a mother would have forsaken their degrees and found another line of work. More vow to leave the law with the next infusion of cash or gumption. What happened, I ask my classmates, to the days when we had the world by the balls? What happened to the days when we were golden?


"I don't believe we thought much about happiness as young men. If you had a steady job with decent pay and a good family at home, that was a pretty fine life. The chance to go to a top law school and get a good job, one you knew would set you apart, well, we thought that was pretty good. And the idea of quitting law after you'd studied for years and had all that opportunity? Why would anyone do that?"


--robert hupp, class of 1950, partner, murphy,
hupp & kinnally, aurora, illinois
"I hate my job, man. I'm dying to get out of here. I'm dying to talk about it with someone. I thought all weekend that if I talk to you for your story, maybe that will give me the momentum I need to quit. I know you said I could remain confidential. But there's always that one tenth of one percent chance someone will figure out it's me. And I can't put this job in jeopardy. I know that's depressing, but that's the way it's gotta be. So sorry, man. I can't talk to you."
--anonymous, class of 1990, partner at a large
east coast law firm


Victor Bernace


SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BOTTOM of his sock drawer, Victor Bernace keeps one of his few happy childhood memories. It's a photograph, and the star of the picture is none other than Victor, all of eight years old, grinning and clutching a wad of money--must be a million dollars there--and hoisting that dough into the air as if he's conquered the world, which is exactly what his father told him to do with his life just seconds before he said, Smile, and pressed the shutter. And even though the kid in the picture is clutching just a pile of typing paper cut into money shapes, his father said, Keep that picture and look at it, Victor; make a million dollars, get the American dream. And Victor kept the picture and he still looks at it, even though he can't remember how old he was when his father died from alcoholism and his mother started trying to murder him.


No one spoke English at Victor's house in Chicago, only Spanish, but the family had a TV, so he studied cartoons, learning grammar from Bugs Bunny and vocabulary from Scooby-Doo. His dad made ends meet as a waiter, not at a joint, but at one of Chicago's grand hotels, the kind, he'd tell Victor, where guests don't hear plates clinking and they get three forks. Victor figures he might have been nine when his family moved to Inwood, the hardscrabble section on the northernmost tip of Manhattan, and his father died of cirrhosis. By then, he knew his mother was nuts. While Victor was figuring how to become the man of the house, his mother kept telling him he was going to die tomorrow, that she was the chosen woman dressed in white in the Bible who gives birth to the man-child, and it was all tinged with sexual themes, like Victor would be a virgin forever and die a virgin. She tried to poison Victor twice. The people at Bellevue Hospital, where Mrs. Bernace resided after trying to kill Victor, called it paranoid schizophrenia, and Victor was sent to a foster home. Victor didn't mind so much that schoolteachers believed he was retarded and needed special ed. All Victor knew was that he was always hungry and that childhood--except for Charlie's Angels and science-fiction library books--didn't feel so good.


Andrea Kramer
FIRST GRADE IS WHEN MOST kids learn what sound a T makes. First grade is when Andrea Kramer started reading astronomy books.


Were she not cute in just the way it's great to be cute at six--apple cheeks, boy crushes, rapid-fire giggle--Andrea might have been pegged by classmates as pure dork. By second grade, she had shunned Barbies to learn about space flight. Her parents, neither of whom had graduated from college, watched in wonder as she slew math puzzles intended for boys who had already shaved.


What her mom and dad didn't see was that during second grade, Andrea was also studying the poverty of her Lower East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. In the Bowery, Andrea found a spot where she could watch bums sleep outside vacant tenements. To her mind, which swooned at the justice inherent in math problems, there was no equilibrium in homeless human beings sleeping outside empty homes. While the bums dozed, Andrea fantasized about saving them, and when she was eight, she announced at the dinner table that that's exactly what she intended to do with her life.



Chris Crain
CHRIS CRAIN'S FATHER rose from Kroger bag boy to vice-president of the grocery behemoth, and, by God, it was no accident. When a man lives the strict Christian life, when he gives generously to Pat Robertson and keeps a traditional southern home and leads Boy Scouts and community groups, he can achieve the American dream. And so, of course, can his children.
The second of three children, Chris shone brightest of the perfect Crain offspring. By 1974, the fourth grader was a Boy Scout, a little gentleman of "yes, sir"s and "no, ma'am"s who made straight A's and was known to pals as "Crain-Brain."


Around the Crains' dinner table, talk was archconservative, and it was discussion without dissent. The Crain children were expected to trust in Christ and the Republican party, to set examples for other youngsters, and to attend church modestly dressed. They were not, despite their desires, to watch Happy Days or Laverne & Shirley, perfect examples of the extent to which profanity had infected family television. Sex talk, naturally, was impermissible in the Crain household, so when it came time at thirteen for Chris's birds-and-bees discussion, his parents instead gave him a book titled The Christian Approach to Sex, in which, he remembers, the author explained that "the penis fits into the vagina like a key into a keyhole." Chris wondered if a man therefore must turn his penis once it's inside, but it was a fleeting question. More important, he wondered why he couldn't stop thinking about touching another boy's penis. And he wondered this especially during prayer time in church, when the congregation closed its eyes and couldn't see him crying.



Greg Giraldo
KIDS WHO PULL STRAIGHT A'S in grade school don't often scare teachers. But for all his smarts, Greg Giraldo couldn't focus in fifth grade, and it disturbed those in charge. The kid from Queens daydreamed about funny people, guys who made other guys laugh. How thrilling to live at a time when John Belushi roamed the earth! How glorious to be Mad magazine artist Don Martin and to invent words like thwap and glork! Watch the face of a kid in love with laughter; it's not a face that soothes the schoolteacher's soul.

Mr. and Mrs. Giraldo were summoned to school and asked, Is something wrong at home? Is something troubling Greg? Nothing that we know of, the parents replied. And they returned home and asked Greg if there was something wrong. Not that I know of, he replied, and he returned to recording funny little thoughts in the journals he kept. Mom and Dad couldn't protest much; Greg was a perfect student, the kind who might fulfill an immigrant parent's dream that he become a doctor or a lawyer, or, better yet, an Ivy League doctor or lawyer. Or, best yet, a Harvard doctor or lawyer.


A HARVARD LAW SCHOOL graduate could expect in 1960 to bill fifteen hundred hours a year at a major big-city law firm. In return, he was virtually certain to make partner in six years, share in the firm's profits, and enjoy a collegial, relaxed, lifetime position of prestige. His desk and office would be kept for him until he died, sometimes for years after, as a show of respect.


Today's Harvard Law School graduate can expect to bill twenty-two hundred hours a year, and often as many as twenty-four hundred. In return, he stands perhaps a one-in-eight chance at making partner after eight years, and even then he might not share profits. As a partner, he will never be allowed to relax; if his revenues or hours drop, he will be invited to resign. When a Harvard Law School graduate fails to make partner, he is seen as the worst kind of failure by colleagues and prospective employers, because he entered with staggering advantages and promise. If he does make it to partner, then to retirement, no one will think to keep his desk around.


"Young Harvard lawyers are less content today than we were. They work harder, longer hours. They don't have the time to indulge themselves, to become Renaissance people. My classmates still believed that it was possible to go to plays--every night if we wished--to learn music, to have intellectual discourses. We led pretty decent lives in the law firms. Today, a Harvard Law graduate comes in conditioned to give up large parts of his life for a number of years. I don't know if it's a pretty decent life."


--samuel b. fortenbaugh iii, class of 1960, former managing partner at morgan, lewis & bockius, new york


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