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Bill Gates, Commish King, PTA and Special Interests: Follow the Money | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates

Bill Gates, Commish King, PTA and Special Interests: Follow the Money | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates:

Bill Gates, Commish King, PTA and Special Interests: Follow the Money

 
Dear Bill and Melinda,
Commish King has a big PR problem in New York where your Common Core tests didn’t go down so well.
Clearly this video below shows — middle class white, Black, and brown families in New York aren’t swallowing your propaganda.  They know their children aren’t failures.   They know better.  Commish King recently “got schooled” by these parents at a PTA Town Hall. These New York parents are smart, articulate parents who aren’t taking well to corporate reform’s oppression.  These New York parents are very confident they have bright articulate students who are not failures.  They know the problem is your Common Core. They know the problem is high stakes testing.  They know the problem is corporate