Public Education Election Updates
There are still one million ballots to count in Washington State so I-1240 is still in flux at about 51-49%.
According to KUOW, the Yes group was very confident last night until the first numbers came in. (I do find it funny that they kept their "guests" from the media at their event. I don't get that.) Apparently a LEV spokesperson said their campaign kept things "factual". Factual? That's a stretch.
It's wrong to not tell the truth. But after not telling truth, telling half-truths is next in line and that's precisely what the Yes side did.
In Georgia, voters passed a constitutional amendment embed a charter commission into their Constitution. It mirrored the race in Washington State in terms of the big money put into it. The vote turned out to be 58% to 42%. The issue was that event though 9 out of 10 charters that applied to school boards did get passed, it wasn't enough. So they have create a state charter commission to be able to allow even more charters to be enacted (without local oversight). Sounds familiar.
In Indiana a major blow to ed reform as Glenda Ritz, a Democratic challenger and a public school teacher, turned out Republican and ed reformer Tony Bennett as the Indiana superintendent of public instruction. Bennett had a nearly 5-1 campaign war chest against Ritz. This election was a great example of grassroots and social media.
Those teachers sent out about 100,000 post cards with hand-written messages to family and friends across the state, pleading with them to support Ritz. A group of teachers in heavily Republican Boone County launched a “Republicans for Ritz” site on Facebook, calling on party faithful to split their ticket and vote for the Democrat Ritz.
Ritz kept up the fight all the way through Election Day when she held a series of press availabilities around Central Indiana, while Bennett declined all media interview requests Tuesday.
According to KUOW, the Yes group was very confident last night until the first numbers came in. (I do find it funny that they kept their "guests" from the media at their event. I don't get that.) Apparently a LEV spokesperson said their campaign kept things "factual". Factual? That's a stretch.
It's wrong to not tell the truth. But after not telling truth, telling half-truths is next in line and that's precisely what the Yes side did.
In Georgia, voters passed a constitutional amendment embed a charter commission into their Constitution. It mirrored the race in Washington State in terms of the big money put into it. The vote turned out to be 58% to 42%. The issue was that event though 9 out of 10 charters that applied to school boards did get passed, it wasn't enough. So they have create a state charter commission to be able to allow even more charters to be enacted (without local oversight). Sounds familiar.
In Indiana a major blow to ed reform as Glenda Ritz, a Democratic challenger and a public school teacher, turned out Republican and ed reformer Tony Bennett as the Indiana superintendent of public instruction. Bennett had a nearly 5-1 campaign war chest against Ritz. This election was a great example of grassroots and social media.
Those teachers sent out about 100,000 post cards with hand-written messages to family and friends across the state, pleading with them to support Ritz. A group of teachers in heavily Republican Boone County launched a “Republicans for Ritz” site on Facebook, calling on party faithful to split their ticket and vote for the Democrat Ritz.
Ritz kept up the fight all the way through Election Day when she held a series of press availabilities around Central Indiana, while Bennett declined all media interview requests Tuesday.
