In their first official foray into Massachusetts politics, DFER spent big but came up short.
Say you’re a young man who is all about *crushing* the achievement gap and you just happen to have a cool
$20K of daddy’s money to plunk down in order to influence an important local election. But who do you support? Do you go with the
first-generation Haitian-American who would be the first minority OR woman to represent a part of Boston still scarred from the busing wars of the 1970′s? Or do you go big and bold,
backing the white guywith the Irish name from a powerful South Boston family of the sort that has dominated this part of Massachusetts for decades?
Well that was easy! According to DFER’s patented endorsement process, which seems to involve googling a candidate’s name together with “charter schools, support for,” there was only one boldly disruptive reform candidate in this race. Here’s a clue: Linda Dorcena Forry never even mentions charter schools and their
