By Seth Sandronsky | ZNet, April 7, 2008
Before U.S. forces attacked Iraq in March 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell argued at the U.N. for the armed removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose weapons of mass destruction threatened the American people. Iraq’s WMDs have yet to found. But Powell found a new mission as founding chair of America’s Promise Alliance. USA Today calls it “a group of foundations, advocacy and non-profit organizations, and corporate and religious groups focusing on children’s education, safety and health.” Alma, Powell’s wife, is the current chair of APA, which released an April 1 report on which students do (not) earn high school diplomas in the U.S.
The report is titled Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation. It found a 17 percent gap in the graduation rates between students at U.S. urban and suburban high schools. Christopher B. Swanson of the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center wrote the report with data from the federal Education Dept. The Education Research Center gets support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The foundation’s largesse is due in no small part to the support Gates gets from the federal government: the copyright monopolies it grants to Microsoft software. This is no case of the market magic. To the contrary, this is a government policy of intervention for a multi-billionaire and his U.S.-based global corporation.
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