Michelle Rhee's Michigan group spent $900,000 on ads attacking teachers

[Liberal_in_LA]

Michigan group spent $900,000 on ads attacking teachers

An organization that worked with the state legislature to draft laws that limit collective bargaining rights and tenure for teachers spent more than $900,000 on advertising in the first seven months of this year.

The Michigan Campaign Finance Network reports that Students First, a California and D.C.-based ‘education reform’ organization, spent more than any other group on lobbying over this period.

StudentsFirst was founded by Michelle Rhee, a former leader of the Washington, D.C. public schools.

The group pushed a four-bill package that makes it harder for teachers to get tenure and easier for districts to lay off teachers and bans teachers from bargaining over personnel issues, including matters relating to placement and discipline.

http://washingtonindependent.com/111824/michigan-group-spent-900000-on-ads-attacking-teachers

[joeybee12]

1. How much money does she make as the head of this d*c*w*d organization? knr

[Blue_Tires]

2. Does anybody still want to defend this woman and what she's about? Anyone at all?

She had a lot of true believers on DU when that movie was out...

[xchrom]

4. It seems it's a rock & a hard place if you also want to

Defend Duncan & Obama on 'reform'.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Obama's education policy must fail.

I do not support making education into a series of standardized tests proctored by for pro-profit corporations.

[hlthe2b]

3. Michelle Rhee reminds me of Michelle Malkin...

One is a former teacher who has gained celebrity by selling out teachers and her entire former profession. The other is the daughter of Filipino immigrants who has sold out other immigrants and even publicly defended internment of Japanese citizens during WWII.

Two horrible women.. Two ruthless opportunists.

[truebrit71]

7. Yup, I thought that too...

...

[ashling]

8. I've often said she reminds me of Michelle Malkin

but I Hadn'tthought about that comparison.

[Festivito]

5. Pocket change to our state's billionaires and others want those unions destroyed too.

Spending like this has become part of a business model for the wealthy.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Where are all of the posters who were so concerned about what a waste teachers are?

No "rubber roomites" want to step up and comment on this? What about that evil teachers union, eh?

[Enthusiast]

10. Only $900,000?

A mere pittance.

[Blue_Tires]

11. ttt

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Democracy is under direct, systemic attack by capitalists.

You already know this.