Weekly Update, January 20, 2012: Rent-a-preachers, teachers and a school that works
A lot has been gong on in the last two weeks nationally and I am now just getting caught up.
There is a lot going on in the state of Washington with Stand for Children, et al, trying to do an end run around the people by going directly to the state legislators to attempt to privatize out educational system. It worked in Wisconsin, as Jonah Edelman with Stand for Children proudly proclaimed in the video of him at the Aspen Institute so of course it will work in Washington, right? Well, that’s what he said would happen. He said that our state was next.
We’ll see. Stay tuned
In the meantime some very interesting events have been occurring around the country. One that I have to lead with today because it is so outrageous is Rahm Emanuel’s sleazy tactics in Chicago called the “Rent-a-