Good news in Seattle: corporate education reform tide is pushed back! « Parents Across America

Good news in Seattle: corporate education reform tide is pushed back! « Parents Across America:

Good news in Seattle: corporate education reform tide is pushed back!

by leoniehaimson

The following update is by Sue Peters, a founding member of Parents Across America and Parents Across America -Seattle, where over the course of the past year, grassroots organizing, community members and stakeholders have beaten down the forces of corporate reform several times, including in the latest school board elections.

Amazingly, the State of Washington still does not allow charter schools, in the backyard of that privatization juggernaut, the Gates Foundation. This year, Seattle has also forced the resignation of their pro-corporate reform, Broad-trained superintendent, as Sue also recounts below.

Good news in Seattle — two grassroots school board candidates defeat two business-backed ed reform incumbents!

Four strong grassroots challengers took on four rubber-stamping, corporate ed reform