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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

solidaridad: Insight into just how manipulative and insidious DFER is

solidaridad: Insight into just how manipulative and insidious DFER is

Insight into just how manipulative and insidious DFER is

"Like special interests, our constituents deserve some consideration also." — Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte (LAUSD Board). At least someone was thinking of parents and community before corporations and privatizers at LAUSD.

Stand up to Arne Duncan and DFER's corporate charter privatization scheme!
If we ever needed more insight into just how manipulative and insidiousDemocrats for Education Reform (DFER) is as an agent of the corporate and neoliberal agenda, they've published a white paper discussing how they managed to railroad the anti-community, anti-teacher, pro-corporate SB-191 through the Colorado Legislature. The bill, which further disenfranchised communities in favor of corporate "ed-reformers," and stripped Colorado teachers of nearly any protections whatsoever is a prime example of how it isn't only teabagging darlings like Florida's Rick Scott and Wisconsin's