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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Schools Matter: Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California

Schools Matter: Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California:

Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California

"Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high-stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity." — Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002) quoted on Alfie Khon's site

Defend Public Schools from Corporate Charter-Voucher Charlatans like the foppish millionaire from Benedict Canyon, parent trigger pusher Ben AustinApparently the right wingers at Parent Revolution are immune to cognitive dissonance. How else could we explain an organization that frequently co-hosts meetings with The Heartland Institute calling the National Educators Association (NEA) teabaggers? In their desperate flailing attempt to preserve George W. Bush's fringe right wing legislation No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Parent Revolution