Heads up, Tacoma teachers! Don’t be fooled by the “Vibrant Schools Tacoma Coalition”
Connecting the dots… Yet another ed reform Astroturf organization emerges out of nowhere.
A new Astroturf group has just emerged in Tacoma, WA, that sounds a lot like the one that was fabricated in Seattle last year, with the same mission: to influence the upcoming teacher’s contract negotiations. More specifically, its goal is to impose an outside corporate ed reform agenda on teachers by tricking them into believing there is broad public support for these (discredited) reforms when in fact there isn’t.
Astroturf alert!
This latest entity is called the “Vibrant Schools Tacoma Coalition” and it emerged in late April.
Just like in Seattle, someone hired an outside marketing company (EMC Research) which apparently conducted
