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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards?

Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards?:


StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards?

StudentsFirst Ms. Robinson's protestations make about as much sense as this snippet.


Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is a hot topic on some educational blogs yesterday.  Diane Ravitch and Bob Sikes have unleashed an unexpected avalanche of readers' comments on their recent blogs about StudentsFirst and a letter from a StudentsFirst paid organizer, Catherine Durkin Robinson.  Robinson took exception to being called out by name in Sikes' blog about her plea for StudentsFirst supporters to comment online and support the education reformers and their version of school "choice":

With a legislative battle looming in Florida, corporate reformers propagandists have their marching