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The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers | Seattle Education

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The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers

As I posted previously about Stand for Children (SFC) and their support of school board candidates in the articleStand for Children, School Board Elections, Washington State PTA and Charter Schools, Jonah Edelman, co-founder of Stand for Children, states in regards to school board and legislative candidates that SFC supports:

I’m being quite blunt here, the individual candidates were essentially a vehicle to execute a political objective…

Later in the post I write:

By the way, during my information search, I came across this on the Stand for Children website. Three of our very own school board incumbents are receiving financial assistance and on-the-ground support from SFC. Buyers beware. From the Stand for Children website:

A number of our chapters have developed endorsement committees to support education champions running for school board this fall. These committees created an endorsement process, developed questionnaires, and interviewed candidates for these important public service positions. Check out the profiles of our education champions below:

Seattle Announcement:

Sherry Carr

Harium Martin-Morris

Steve Sundquist

And now more information on the financing