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Education Petition: Stop tricking progressives into signing Michelle Rhee’s union busting petitions | Change.org

Education Petition: Stop tricking progressives into signing Michelle Rhee’s union busting petitions | Change.org:

Stop tricking progressives into signing Michelle Rhee’s union busting petitions






Stop tricking progressives into signing Michelle Rhee’s union busting petitions
  1. Signatures
    44 out of 100
    Petitioning
    1. Change.org
  2. Created By
    Aaron Krager
    Chicago, IL

Why this is Important
Michelle Rhee has been using Change.org to collect tens of thousands of emails addresses. She uses cleverly worded, deceptive language for her anti-union petitions that have entrapped the otherwise well-meaning into signing her anti-union, anti-teacher petitions.

Rhee has been traveling the country working with Tea Party governors to weaken public schools. She lobbied on behalf of SB 5 in Ohio, and the anti-collective bargaining bill in Michigan. She played a major part in eliminating collective bargaining from Tennessee's teachers; she advised Rick Scott as he gutted the Florida budget for public education; and she hired a lobbyist in Pennsylvania to work on weakening