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A whirlwind week for Parents United

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"Philadelphia is Ground Zero for the fake reform movement.One person standing in their way is Helen Gym. The fake reformers are well on their way to obliterating public education in that great American city and proud of it.The past few weeks have been kind of a whirlwind as a host of events converged around Parents United work seemingly all at once. Helen Gym gave a TED talk (and look at that slide over her head: $26,000 per child in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, vs. $14,000 in Philadelphia She joined me at AERA and chastised the nation's education researchers for abandoning cities like Philadelphia. Helen was named one of the most powerful people in Philadelphia. She was selected by the White House as a "champion of change." (Ha! fighting the Obama administration's rightwing education policies.) She helped other parents fight the parent trigger." Read about her,,, she is a hero...
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)
 

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