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Julie Woestehoff: Will #Parents Be Next to Get School "Reformers'" Broom?

Julie Woestehoff: Will Parents Be Next to Get School "Reformers'" Broom?
Julie Woestehoff

Julie Woestehoff

Posted: October 4, 2010 06:11 PM

Once Bill Gates, D. C. Supt. Michelle Rhee and theWaiting for "Superman" crowd are done drawing and quartering teachers, are they going to come after us parents?

After all, we're just the flip side of the same coin.

What if, after all the millions of dollars that have been poured into marketing and movies promoting charter schools, turnaround companies, vouchers, mayors running the schools, etc., parents still refuse to play?

What if the public opinion polls continue to show, as the Gallup/PDK report did this year, that:

  • Americans oppose school turnarounds -- 58% support helping existing local school