High school part of learning community funded jointly by Obama and
domestic terrorist

Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday’s Arizona
shooting, attended a high school that is part of a network in which
teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded
by Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and funded by President Obama.

The group, Small Schools Workshop, has been led by a former top
communist activist who is an associate of Ayers.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2169

Obama provided the group with funds in the 1990s, when he worked at an
education reform group alongside Ayers.

Loughner attended Mountain View High School, which is part of
Arizona’s Marana Unified School District.

Since 2003, Mountain View has been part of what is known as the
Smaller Learning Community, a network of schools that have been
restructured to create a more personalized learning environment where
students often share the same teachers and student members from grade
to grade.

Mountain View was part of the Smaller Learning Communities throughout
Loughner’s entire attendance there, from 9th grade until he withdrew
without graduating before his senior year.

The high school received grants to research the concepts of Smaller
Learning Communities and work to implement them.

Ayers himself is considered one of the fathers of the Smaller Learning
Communities, often providing lectures to schools on the subject. For
example, a 2001 lecture at Lewis & Clark College featured Ayers at a
workshop entitled, “A Simple Justice: Building Smaller Learning
Communities to Know Our Youth.”

Smaller Learning Communities had its conceptual genesis in 1991, when
Ayers founded a group, Small Schools Workshop, which provides training
and resources to teach schools on how to implement the Smaller
Learning Communities.

Small Schools Workshop (Co-founded by the Marxist/Maoist Michael
Klonsky and the former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers,
this project portrays American capitalism as an economic system
infested with racism, imperialism, and all manner of social
injustice.)

Small Schools Workshop is a recommended agent for how to implement
smaller schools curriculum, including at Loughner’s alma mater,
Mountain View.

Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop has the stated goal of providing support
for teachers who want to create smaller learning environments. Ayers
reportedly recruited a radical activist, Mike Klonsky, to head the
Workshop. Klonsky still serves as director.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2436
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Mike_Klonsky

The Small Schools Workshop was originally associated with the
University of Illinois in Chicago, where Klonsky previously taught in
the education department alongside Ayers, who retired from the
university last year. The group was headquartered for a time inside
the university’s department of education building.

In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly-formed Chicago
Annenberg Challenge, or CAC,

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/A...eredo1031.html
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Bar..._Organizations

a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.
The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few
years.

Ayers was on a working group of five that originally founded the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Correspondence shows Ayers was
instrumental in recruiting Obama to serve as the CAC’s first
chairmain.

Ayers served as co-chairman of the Chicago School Reform
Collaborative, one of the two operational arms of the CAC.

Klonsky served with Ayers and Ayers’ wife, former Weatherman terrorist
Bernardine Dohrn,

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2190
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Bernardine_Dohrn
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/p...asp?grpid=6808
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Weatherman

in the Students for a Democratic Society group (see video in
article),

http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Stu...cratic_Society
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6723
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=7496

a major leftist student organization in the 1960s that later
splintered, with Ayers and Dohrn leading a more activist approach with
the Weatherman. Klonsky reportedly favored less aggressive tactics,
promoting the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to
be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism.

In the 1970s, Mike Klonsky became a top communist activist and leader
of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2436
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Mike_Klonsky

He reportedly identified as a Maoist, and traveled in 1977 to Beijing,
where he held friendly meetings with the Chinese leadership.

In a book, “Revolution in the Air,” author Max Elbaum, himself a
former Maoist activist, recounts that in Beijing, Klonsky toasted the
Chinese Stalinist leadership who, in turn, hailed the formation of his
Communist Party group as “reflecting the aspirations of the
proletariat and working people,” effectively recognizing Klonsky’s
organization as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.

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