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Monday, July 2, 2012

Diane Ravitch Gets A Corporate Spin From the Charter Queen | redefinED

Diane Ravitch, please stop distorting the origins of the parent trigger | redefinED:


Diane Ravitch, please stop distorting the origins of the parent trigger (THE PARENT TRIGGER IS DISTORTED ENOUGH)

Diane Ravitch, are you listening?
This is former state Sen. Gloria Romero calling.
I am the author of California’s first Parent Trigger law, the first parent trigger law in the nation. Since I first wrote that law, some 15 other states have seen some version of the law introduced in their states.
I wanted to reach out to you since we have never met, and I look forward to meeting you so we can one day talk directly with each other. Woman to woman.
In one of your recent blog posts on Education Week, you wrote that the parent trigger came from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). On the blogosphere, I now read many claims that ALEC wrote the law. This is completely false, and I ask you to 
DFER Fake Democrats for Education Privatization (click on Picture) 
IT IS A RULE: YOU CAN'T BE AGAINST PEOPLE AND FOR CORPORATIONS AND CALL YOURSELF A DEMOCRAT...EVER! 
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