The growing progressive movement to save public education

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Sunday, March 29, 2015, 11:07 pm
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Ruth Conniff at The Progressive writes The Growing Progressive Movement to Save Public Education. An excerpt:
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All over the country, a growing movement of parents, teachers, and students is rising up against over-testing, school closings, and shady schemes that channel public funds into private schools. 

Saving public education is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 Presidential campaign. 
In a front-page article this week, The New York Times described Hillary Clinton's dilemma on so-called education reform.
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On one side, charter school operators and hedge fund managers are urging Hillary to adopt their teachers-union-bashing, pro-privatization agenda.
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On the other side, communities all over the country are experiencing education "reform" as a major threat to their local public schools.
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 "Mrs. Clinton is re-entering the fray like a Rip Van Winkle for whom the terrain on education standards has shifted markedly, with deep new fissures in the Democratic Party," Times reporter Maggie Haberman writes.
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The pressure Haberman notes, however, is mostly coming from one side-Wall Street hedge fund managers and "wealthy Democrats who favor sweeping changes to education-including a more business-like approach, and tying teacher tenure to performance as measured by student test scores."
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But there is more to the story than what Wall Street wants. [...]

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