PAA leader helps expose Parent Revolution carpetbagging | Parents Across America

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PAA leader helps expose Parent Revolution astroturfers

by pureparents

Rita Solnet, PAA founding member and leader of PAA Florida affiliate Testing is not Teaching, reports that she and others have helped expose Parent Revolution’s carpetbagging.

PR (an apt acronym) is a California group funded by Gates, Walton and the usual gang to promote charter schools and the parent trigger. No Florida parent group has come out in favor of the parent trigger, but Parent Revolution’s astroturfers  have staged a full-court press in the state legislature, where the bill passed the house last week.

Here’s what happened next, according to the Tampa Bay Times: 

TALLAHASSEE — For weeks, it seemed, few parents in Florida supported the so-called parent trigger bill.

And then, a video began circulating in the Capitol.

The video, featuring South Florida moms praising the legislation, was attributed to a mysterious