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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Superman has left the house. Even Idaho. « Fred Klonsky

Superman has left the house. Even Idaho. « Fred Klonsky:


Superman has left the house. Even Idaho.


I received an email from my friend Bill Ayers directed me to an article by David Sirota in Salon.
Sirota continues to report on last Tuesday’s good news.
Phony ed reform got a push back in three states.
Colorado:

In Colorado, the out-of-state, corporate-funded group Stand for Children, which previously made national headlines bragging about its corrupt legislative deal making, backed a campaign to hand the state Legislature to pro-privatization Republicans, specifically by trying to defeat Democratic legislators who have stood on the side of public education. Though the group and its affiliated anti-union, pro-privatization allies have become accustomed to getting their way in this state, 2012 saw them handily defeated, as the targeted Democrats won election, giving their party full control of the statehouse.

Indiana:

There, as the Indianapolis Star reports, Superintendent for Public Instruction Tony Bennett became “the darling of the reform movement” by “enthusiastically implement(ing) such major reforms as the nation’s most expansive private