Listen up, friends! Your own school district might hire McKinsey or Boston Consulting Group, and you need to know that they have a template for “right-sizing” the district. The template has ...
https://dianeravitch.net/2016/05/02/peter-greene-on-mckinsey-plan-to-close-public-schools-in-boston/
Paul Tudor Jones is a hedge fund billionaire who enjoys a lavish life style, with multiple homes, jets, and yachts. He has cultivated his image as a philanthropist who cares deeply about the poor...
https://dianeravitch.net/2016/03/20/meet-billionaire-paul-tudor-jones/
Deborah Gist, the former state superintendent of schools in Rhode Island, has recommended a $920,000 contract for the Boston Consulting Group in Tulsa, where she is now district superintendent. T...
Margaret Spellings, who will assume the presidency of the University of North Carolina system in March, will begin with a report from the Boston Consulting Group. The management consultants are k...
Peter Greene has done an amazing investigative review of the Boston Consulting Group. What is BCG? Why do reformers in so many cities hire this management consulting firm? What is its connection ...
https://dianeravitch.net/2015/02/03/peter-greene-explains-the-boston-consulting-group/
Connecticut wants to transform its state university and community colleges for the 21st century. Who gets the nearly $2 million contract to redesign the system? Why, the Boston Consulting Group, ...
A friend passed along this email. What an awesome threesome! The Boston Consulting Group (whose reports always recommend privatization, as in Philadelphia); the Harvard Business School; and the G...
https://dianeravitch.net/2014/02/25/they-must-go-to-finland/
Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, harshly criticized one of Mayor Bloomberg’s signature initiatives, the school support networks. “Me, if I were going to take o...
https://dianeravitch.net/2013/10/29/tisch-says-blooomberg-school-support-networks-have-failed/
This reader has a question. I am aware that BCG recommended mass school closings in Philadelphia and handover of students to private organizations. Can you help? “Which cities has the BCG done ...
https://dianeravitch.net/2013/04/21/can-you-answer-a-question-about-boston-consulting-group/
The School Reform Commission of Philadelphia plans to close 37 schools to save money while opening charter schools. Parents, students, teachers, and others are fighting back. The city’s schools...
https://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/30/philadelphians-fight-school-closures/