The Washington PTA Stacks the Deck Towards Charter Schools
In yesterday’s post I described one of the connections between Stand for Children, charter schools and the Washington State PTA, that being Chad Magendanz. Mr. Magendanz was one of the PTA members to write theproposal for charter schools to be part of the legislative platform that would be lobbied for by him and Ramona Hattendorf who is the Government Relations Coordinator.
It has come to my attention that there is another player involved, who is a member of Stand for Children and the League of Education Voters who was also on the committee that wrote the proposal for charter schools in our state, Alison Meryweather.
Per a Issaquah Education Association memo dated September 15, 2011. The memo describes the connection of Stand for Children, Jonah Edelman, Chad Magendanz and Alison Meryweather:
Stand for Children encourages its members to gain positions on school boards and PTAs –