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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: RELEASE: Alliance hits Campbell Brown's 'Summit' on 4th day of Dyett hunger strike

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: RELEASE: Alliance hits Campbell Brown's 'Summit' on 4th day of Dyett hunger strike:

RELEASE: Alliance hits Campbell Brown's 'Summit' on 4th day of Dyett hunger strike





For Immediate Release: August 20, 2015
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Education Advocates Condemn Discussion Around Public Education in Campbell Brown’s New Hampshire Education Summit

Yesterday, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown held an education summit in New Hampshire, where she interviewed six Republican presidential candidates about their stances on K-12 public education.

Keron Blair, Director at The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), a coalition of parents, students, educators and community members, issued the following statement in response:


“While parents, teachers and students of an AROS member organization in Chicago are hunger-striking to keep their only neighborhood high school open--and to keep it open as a high quality sustainable community school--the Republican candidates are dodging questions and promoting corporate interests in public schools that are at the root of school closures and underinvestment in public Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: RELEASE: Alliance hits Campbell Brown's 'Summit' on 4th day of Dyett hunger strike: