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Chicago Trib’s sneaky push for Hollywood version of parent empowerment

wisting the truth.
Today’s Chicago Tribune editorial loudly quotes an Adelanto, California parent saying “We can’t back down,” in the fight to pull a “parent trigger” to close their school and bring in a charter operator to run it. The movement in question has been embroiled in a legal fight, where a judge recently ruled that the parent trigger petitions should stand.
Amazingly, the editorial writer fails to mention that “Won’t Back Down” is the title of a soon-to-be-released Hollywood fantasy based on the parent trigger controversy.
“Won’t Back Down” is the major motion picture version of “Waiting for Superman,” and is produced by the same group, Walden Media, owned by billionaire right winger, Philip Anschutz. Both films carr