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These are links for "Who is Eli Broad and why is he trying to destroy public education?" in 2013 since publication.

A Broad Connection to the Atlanta Scandal?
Diane Ravitch's blog - March 30, 2013

John Thompson: Did Duncan Load the Bullets into Michelle Rhee's Smoking Gun
Living in Dialogue - Education Week - April 16, 2013 

440 N. "Broad" Street
Philadelphia Daily News - April 29, 2013 

PA Violates Its Own Constitution
Defend Public Education, April 30, 2013

Broad School Bully?
Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Daily News - April 30, 2013

The 2013-14 "Doomsday Budget" of the School District of Philadelphia: How Did It Come to This?
Defend Public Education - June 3, 2013 

Bill Gates Continues To Purchase Major Teacher Unions and At Discount Rates
Raging Horse Blog - July 3, 2013

Cashing in on Kids: 139 ALEC Bills in 2013 Promote a Private, For Profit Education Model
PR Watch - July 16, 2013

The Summer of Our Discontent
Defend Public Education - July 21, 2013 

Why philanthropy can't save Philly
Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Daily News - July 28, 2013

National teachers union leader points to St. Louis as model
St. Louis Post- Dispatch - August 14, 2013 

School Standards' Debut Is Rocky, and Critics Pounce
The New York Times - August 15, 2013

Teachers at Green Dot Charter Schools OK Merit Pay
(See immediately preceding article.)
Diane Ravitch's blog - July 11, 2013 

Newark's Teachers Get Screwed on Merit Pay
Jersey Jazzman - August 28, 2013 

What the Newark Merit Pay Experiment is Telling Us
Jersey Jazzman - September 4th, 2013

Our Schools Are Not For Sale
Video from Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools and Media Mobilizing Project - September 23, 2013 

Starved Schools Taken Off of Life Support
Defend Public Education! - September 24, 2013

The Broad Foundation and Broadies: Kings of "Disruptive" and "Unreasonable" Trickle-Down Reform
Cloaking Inequity - October 4, 2013 

Common Core vs. Common Sense
Gary Rubinstein's Blog - October 10,2013 

Teacher Union Shores Up Support for John King And Reaffirms Backing for Common Core
Ed Notes Online - October 24, 2013 

Bombshell: Eli Broad Secretly Funded Anti-Public School, Anti-Union Initiatives
Diane Ravitch's blog - October 25, 2013 

The Daily Howler on Frank Bruni Piece on Colorado Ed Law, Supported by Sell-Out AFT and NEA
Ed Notes Online - October 30, 2013 

Union Leadership as Political Sleight of Hand
Schools Matter - November 7, 2013 

NEA, AFT, Common Core, and VAM
HuffPost Education - November 11, 2013 

Broad Foundation Taps White House Advisor for Top Spot
Marketplace K-12 - Educaiton Week - November 15, 2013 

An easy slide from Gates to Pearson
Schooling in the Ownership Society - November 18, 2013

More on Broad in Philadelphia
Defend Public Education - November 29, 2013

To the Editors of the Philadelphia Inquirer
December 5, 2013 

Weingarten's Day of Inaction December 9
Schools Matter - December 7, 2013 

New Era of Cooperation in Newark Schools gives way to Animosity
New Jersey Spotlight - December 10, 2013 

Did AFT Offset Costs of Anti-Corporate Crusade with Corporate Cash?
Schools Matter - December 10, 2013

Is TURN Trying to Take Over Your Union?
Schools Matter - December 13, 2013 

TURN Chapters of AFT Take Lead in "Share My Lessons" Common Core Marathon
Schools Matter - December 14, 2013 

No Love for the Merit Pay Fairy in Newark
Jersey Jazzman - December 14, 2013

Leaders of teachers union, business group join to support Common Core standards
The Washington Post - December 18, 2013

Weingarten Joins Union Enemy John Engler to Plead with Governors to Keep Common Core
Schools Matter - December 19,2013 

The Axiom of the Abandoned: "I Am the Union"
@ The Chalk Face - December 22, 2013 

It Isn't a Sin to Be Rich
By Eli Broad and former LA Mayor Richard Riordan
(Read the comments.)
Los Angeles Times - December 27, 2013 

Did the American Federation of Teachers Really Do This???
@ The Chalk Face - December 29, 2013