Grassroots group campaigns against school vouchers, unchecked expansion of charters

[no_hypocrisy]

The school privatization wars have slogged into a summer stalemate, stuck in a sort of trench warfare that, for the moment at least, rendered the big guns of the most powerful political figures in the state useless against a grassroots campaign that appears to have won the hearts and minds of New Jersey residents.

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The most significant victory of anti-privatization forces, however, did not occur in the Legislature. A recent Rutgers-Eagleton poll found overwhelming support — a 73 percent to 23 percent margin — for local control of charter school spending. It showed Republicans and Democrats alike, urban and suburban, residents with children at home and without, men and women — all believe local residents should vote on whether they want to divert money from local school budgets to support charter schools.

"Legislators should stop their shadowy, boss-controlled politics and listen to the obvious will of the people who want charter school reform,’’ says Rubin, whose own daughter attends a charter school in Princeton.

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http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2011/07/braun_grassroots_campaign_agai.html