[Vision2020] The 2004 Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship

[Ron Force]

His background:
Chester E. Finn, Jr.

The well-traveled Chester Finn is one of the education policy gurus of the
conservative movement. He currently (3/2000) is president of the Thomas B.
Fordham Foundation, where he works in tandem with longtime collaborator
Brunno V. Manno. The Thomas B. Fordham web site also states that Finn works
at the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, which has offices in
Dayton, Ohio and Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Finn is a also currently a John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
(he was formerly with the Hudson Institute 1998). Finn is a former Assistant
U.S. Secretary of Education and a former legislative director for Senator
Daniel P. Moynihan. He was also a founding partner and senior scholar with
the Edison Project, the private company setup to operate public schools on a
for-profit basis. Hudson and Bradley are both major proponents of "school
choice," which would allow public education money to be funneled to groups
like Edison. For a time, Edison was being considered for a possible contract
with the Milwaukee Public Schools system.
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The Board of the Fordham Foundation:

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
President
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Washington, DC

Chester E. Finn Esq.
Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur
Hilton Head, SC

Thomas A. Holton, Esq.
Secretary-Treasurer

Michael W. Kelly
Managing Partner Flying Point Financial Group, L.L.P.

Craig Kennedy
President
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Washington, DC

Bruno V. Manno
Senior Program Associate
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Baltimore, MD

David H. Ponitz
Vice-President

Diane Ravitch
Research Professor
New York University
(New York City)


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Ron Force
Moscow ID USA    rforce@moscow.com
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Contextual information:

The Fordham Prize, now in its second year, is awarded by the Thomas B.
Fordham Foundation for  "major contributions to education reform via
research, analysis, and successful engagement in the war of ideas."
Previous recipients include Paul Peterson, a pro-voucher researcher, and
Anthony Bryck, a proponent of Catholic parochial schools.

The President of the Fordham Foundation Board is Chester "Checkers" Finn,
another proponent of school "choice."  Perhaps he should come to Moscow--the
debacles in our charter schools might have given him food for thought!

Melynda Huskey