Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Washington State PTA repeats misinformation regarding charter schools | Seattle Education

The Washington State PTA repeats misinformation regarding charter schools | Seattle Education:


The Washington State PTA repeats misinformation regarding charter schools

Ramona Hattendorf, the “Government Relations” staff person (and LEV activist) with the WSPTA has a resolution prepared for a vote at the PTA Convention this Friday that would make charter schools a plank in the platform of the PTA in our state for the next two years. What that means is that Ramona and Bill Williams, the Executive Director of WSPTA, would then be able to go to Olympia and say that, as the PTA motto states, “Every child, one voice”, they are representing parents, teachers and students in our state in supporting charter schools.
The resolution is titled “Equitable Educational Opportunities”.
There is much to argue in this set of Whereas’s starting with the fact that there is nothing “equitable” about charter schools but I would like to focus on the following clause that has been repeated by the corporate