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iemitsu

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3. This man knows what he is talking about.
Thu Nov 29, 2012, 01:12 AM
Nov 2012

Unfortunately for the citizens of my state the Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have finally won their right to open charters. We successfully voted them down three times in the past but this time $11.3 million was spent by the pro-charter gang while less than 2/3rds of a million was spent to remind/inform citizens that charters are a rip-off.
The same foundations that push charters on public systems are pushing tests for all students who remain in comprehensive public schools.
Good schools for the children of the rich and low cost, certificate of mastery mills for other children.

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