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Moms booted from Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s film screening during Democratic Convention | The Raw Story

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Moms booted from Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s film screening during Democratic Convention

By David Edwards
Thursday, September 6, 2012 14:05 EDT
North Carolina education activists Pam Grundy and Carol Sawyer (Peter Wong)
 
Two Democratic moms who oppose the privation of schools say that security personnel escorted them two separate events at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week after organizers learned they opposed charter schools and other education “reforms.”
Mecklenburg ACTS co-chairs Pam Grundy and Carol Sawyer told Raw Story that both Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s Students First group and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) did not want any dissenting voices at their events.
Grundy recalled that after initially being denied entry to a Students First screening of the movie