Diane Ravitch cuts check for local school board candidate
It would be hard to find a more obscure election, overshadowed as it is by city council races, not to mention a multi-billion dollar presidential contest. Yet some of the country's biggest names in education are cutting checks to influence the outcome in the 3rd District of the Orleans Parish School Board.
Education historian Diane Ravitch.
The latest celebrity contributor: New York University historian Diane Ravitch, the leading critic of a national education movement centered on school choice and autonomous charter schools.
Ravitch cut a $100 check for the local education activist and parent advocate Karran Harper Royal, according to the latest campaign filings, a small but symbolic counterpoint to the avalanche of donations pouring in for challenger Sarah Newell Usdin, whose haul includes checks from national reform figures like Joel Klein, the former New York City schools chief, and Reed
“We need volunteers, we need your donations and we need you to tell everyone you know in District 3 to vote for Karran Harper Royal,” she said to rounds of applause during her speech. Harper Royal’s campaign web site can be found at www.karran4kids.com.