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The Weekly Update: More on Initiative 1240, the Honorable Arne and do we really want Wal-Mart schools in our state? | Seattle Education

The Weekly Update: More on Initiative 1240, the Honorable Arne and do we really want Wal-Mart schools in our state? | Seattle Education:


The Weekly Update: More on Initiative 1240, the Honorable Arne and do we really want Wal-Mart schools in our state?

The Weekly Update for the news and views you might have missed.
First, a little business.
From the No on 1240 campaign:
We need *you* to provide the people power we need to counter the massive resources of the Yes campaign ($4.7 M and counting. It’s Gates and the Walton’s versus the rest of us.).
Please join People for Our Public Schools this coming Wednesday October 10th for phone banking to defeat Initiative 1240. We need to fund proven solutions for all children first before unproven ideas for just a few!
Alternatively, RSVP via Facebook!
Be there or be square.
And from our friends Down Under, their view on the privatization of our schools:

Charter school Initiative 1240, which is the push to privatize our schools, is described in detail in the post The inconvenient truth about charter school Initiative 1240. Please read it to understand all of the ways this