| Life can be a bed of roses for a gal with a taxpayer-funded credit card and no one checking receipts. Arlene Ackerman charged $45,000 to her San Francisco USD Diners Club card then cried foul when her SFUSD board/employers asked about her spending. |


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| Arlene Ackerman as Queen Elizabeth II |
| Leonard Merrell as King George III |
| Then-Detroit PS supe Connie Calloway as Queen Elizabeth I: The Order of the Purse |



| Steve Jobs |

| James R. Sharpe as King Frederick V |

| Arne Duncan & Rod Blagojevich |
| This image above of Anthony Amato is not mine; it's from the Willamette Weekly, when Anthony Amato was applying for a job in Oregon. i've included it because it's so good. |


| Mr. Obama, Ms. Sotomayor, and Mr. Telepromptor |

| Arne Duncan New cowboy in town at US DOE |

| From math lesson using Mr. Obama's $500,000 book money |

| Michelle & Andres Have a Talk |



| GORGE-ous Guys: The Grand Old Rich Guys of Education: (L to R) Sandy Kress, Mike Moses, Bill Ratliff & David Thompson |

| Ross Scarantino |

| Dallas ISD employee procurement card auction |


| Susan Valdez |

| Barb Trzeskowski as Queen Elizabeth II |

| Kay Bailey Hutchison |

| TPPFsy Award |

| Former Capistrano USD (CA) supe Woody Carter |
| John Sweeney (L), Wayne Alexander |

| Kim Olson (L), Hector Montenegro |

| Mike Bloomberg |
| Original Aug. 2007 Texas Monthly art (L), my interpretation below |
| Tim Geithner having a Tim Geithner kinda day (June 2009) |








