A Letter to My California Senator
Dear Senator,
As a public school teacher of over 25 years and the father of a six-year-old autistic boy, I am very concerned about the destruction of public education under the banner of reform. Neither charter schools nor merit pay have proven records and I am afraid that teaching to the test will be the only outcome if the billionaires who support them have their way. I worry for my special education students as I do for my son. How can they learn when high-stakes testing is what drives education, when private corporations that
