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Hey, David Leonhardt, Here Are Some Facts for Your Next Rant About Charters; BY DIANE RAVICH on JEFF BRYANT.

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"David Leonhardt disdains elected school boards.He likes the market. But he claims that he is fact-based, when he ignores the facts that don’t fit his narrative. Leonhardt "is a garden-variety neoliberal, willing to see a community robbed of its votes so that white kids can get the best schools and black kids get the D- and F-rated schools."  "Jeff Bryant has paid close attention to the ongoing torrent of scandals surrounding charter schools, so he was astonished to see N ew York Times' writerLeonhardt acclaiming the "miracle" in New Orleans-- and he suspects this is but another example of Democratic centrists selling out those to their left, arguing for a DeVos’ style market-driven reform that disempowers ordinary people whose only power is their vote."THIS 'Disinformation weaponized meddling

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