This year's Democratic and Republican national conventions will feature screenings of "Won' t Back Down"
This year's Democratic and Republican national conventions will feature screenings of "Won't Back Down" – a new major studio motion picture to be released on September 28th. The screenings will be hosted by StudentsFirst – a bipartisan national grassroots education reform movement – and partners at both conventions. The screening at the Democratic National Convention will be co-hosted by Democrats for Education Reform and Parent Revolution. The screening at the Republican National Convention will be co-hosted by the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
The film tells a powerful story of parenthood, friendship, hope and courage. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis portray determined mothers – one of them a teacher – who will stop at nothing to transform their children’s failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and a system mired
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