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Schools Matter: Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies

Schools Matter: Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies

Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies

In what will likely go down in corporate ed reform history as the Compton Caper, the otherwise disgustingLATimes is reporting that Compton parents are coming forward with allegations of strong-arming and deception by Parent Revolution to get enough signatures to charterize a public school that has recently demonstrated strong improvement on state test scores.

Sensing an all-out repudiation by the school community of the oligarch-funded front group, Parent Revolution, Austin and Barr called up the Governator and L.A.'s plutocratic mayor to try to get ahead of the story. The spin