The Wolf of Delaware comes across as a sheep to his most loyal followers. They believe he is always right and they will do anything he wants. Some of these followers can be found in the highest positions at Legislative Hall in Dover. Many of them can be found at the Townshend Building, home to the Delaware Department of Education. His people have been placed in important positions all over the state.
To understand the Wolf, you have to read the below document. While reading it, keep in mind everything that has happened in Delaware education over the past ten years. Please keep the Wolf in the forefront of your brain while reading and you can almost picture him reading it to you as so many of his speeches and actions have stemmed from this one body of work.
http://www.ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Executive-Summary.pdf
The Wolf of Delaware was born in the First State in 1960 as the son of William and Elaine Markell. Jack spent his formative years growing up in Newark, Delaware. As early as Kindergarten, young Jack met a girl who would have a profound effect on his life and would eventually become Delaware First Lady Carla Markell. During his youth, Jack Markell attended a summer camp called Camp Galil.
Graduating from Newark High School in the Class of ’78, he next week to college at Brown University in Rhode Island with degrees in economics and development studies. But it was his time in Chicago that shaped Jack Markell into the man he is today. The Wolf got his M.B.A. at University of Chicago, and he started working in 1982 at First Chicago Corporation as a banker. It was his time as a consultant at McKinsey and Associates from 1986 to 1989 that most Delawareans know about during his stint in Chicago. To this day, Markell brings McKinsey in as a consultant on a variety of Delaware issues and initiatives.
His biggest corporate position was from 1989 to 1995 at a company originally called Fleet Call. As a Senior Vice-President at Nextel, Markell actually came up with the company name, Nextel. Markell was in on the ground floor as wireless technology exploded across America in the early 1990s. Markell left Nextel to become a senior manager at Comcast, but he had his eye on politics, and he ran for Delaware State Treasurer in 1998 and won on the Democrat ticket.
The Wolf’s story will continue as his election results in 1998 set up his future in Delaware all the way to the present. Unfortunately, it set up our future, and more importantly, our children’s future…
*The above document was written by Marc Tucker with NCEE
**The above graphic was originally on http://www.utahsrepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Common-Core-State-Standards-and-Race-to-the-Top-An-Introduction-to-Marxism-101.pdf
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