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“I suspect that in his Annenberg work, Obama used his power over the purse strings as a form of pork to reward insiders and allies.”

$$$ THIS is what we need more information on (along with what I suspect to be Ayers’ influence regarding ideological indoctrination of teachers/students).

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Although the University of Illinois holds the complete records of the Annenberg Challenge, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University in Providence, RI houses a sub-set of the national Annenberg Challenge program that was set up in 1993 by a gift of $500 million from Walter Annenberg.

A summary and discussion of these records can be found at: http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/08/behind-annenberg-gate-inside-chicago.html

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So Obambi, personally selected by his buddy Wm. Ayers (”just a guy who lives in my neighborhood”) to be Chairman of this “reform” project to spread $50-100 million in slush money around Chicago, cannot account for anything accomplished by this program.

Indeed, Ayers and Obambi thus far refuse to call for the opening of the archives kept at a PUBLICLY FUNDED university, and some mysterious “donor” of the archives is pulling strings behind the scenes to try to prevent any independent access to these archives.

I have read that the Annenberg funds were matched by “public” funds from other sources, so the whole project may have spent over $100 million in Chicago’s public schools.

Was anything really accomplished by this boondoggle, other than spreading money around Chicago to “win friends and influence people” for Obambi’s future political prospects?

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Key Chicago Annenberg Challenge Documents

I will post over the next few days the key Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents that I was able to obtain prior to the door being slammed in the face of NRO writer Stanley Kurtz by the University of Illinois

While the records I have, including board minutes, financial records and annual reports, are no substitute for the material apparently held by the University, they do help explain the close links between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers as I explored here.

Chicago Annenberg Challenge Documents:

Tax Returns on Form 990PF:

These returns provide details about the grant recipients of the CAC including former Maoist and Bill Ayers's SDS comrade Mike Klonsky's Small Schools Workshop and the Developing Communities Project, once headed by Barack Obama.

1998

1999

2000 (to come)

2001

2002

2003

Independent Assessments of Impact of Chicago Annenberg Challenge:

The 2003 report concludes that the Challenge had no effect on student outcomes.

1999

2003 Parts One and Two

2003 Part Three

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