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DFER in CA « DFER Watch

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DFER IN CA

From the Sacramento Bee:

Romero is busy raising money to get the group’s California chapter started this spring. Just last week, she said, she was in Silicon Valley meeting with potential donors during a luncheon organized by Powell Jobs. “This was a roomful of people saying, ‘Count me in,’ ” Romero said.

The growing anti-union movement among Democrats could make the next few years “a pretty gory battle” in the Capitol, said Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley.

Romero, DFER’s CA director and the September 2009 DFER Reformer of the Month, received contributions from three DFER board members during her run for Superintendent of Public Instruction: Charles Ledley gave