Monday, February 13, 2012

Legislative Action Alert: Let’s Not Allow Stand for Children to Take Over Our Democratc Process | Seattle Education

Legislative Action Alert: Let’s Not Allow Stand for Children to Take Over Our Democratc Process | Seattle Education:

Legislative Action Alert: Let’s Not Allow Stand for Children to Take Over Our Democratc Process

Heads up, everyone — Stand for Children, Incorporated, the out of state political lobbying operation bankrolled by Gates and others, is boasting that it charged down to Olympia this past week and forced our legislators to breathe life back into the poorly written, politically volatile charter school bill and the damaging “teacher evaluation” bills.

Call and write your legislators ASAP if you want them to listen to you, and not front groups for the corporate ed reform machine.

Paid political operations like Stand for Children, Inc., The League of Education Voters (LEV) and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) are trying to avoid voter input at all costs, because, as State Senator Rodney (‘these