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Three interesting findings in the RomneyFirst report

The RomneyFirst report released yesterday by New Yorker for Great Public Schools, contains a few findings that are worth highlighting on their own.
  • According to the report, StudentsFirst has overwhelmingly endorsed Republicans—according to the report, 68% of StudentsFirst endorsements went to Republicans (page 3).
  • A PAC connected to StudentsFirst is run by a former Bush-Cheney 2004 communications staffer (page 3).
  • StudentsFirst lobbied against a New York law that would have restricted “co-location” of charter schools (page 16).  At least two StudentsFirstNY board members, Geoffery Canada and Eva Moskowitz, are also charter school operators, who would benefit from lax co-location policies.
You can read the entire report here.