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biff murphy's avatar

Arizona is getting screwed.

I'm glad in Mass it can't get too crazy.

"Massachusetts passed a law limiting the number of charter schools, capping the total at 120, with specific limits on Horace Mann and Commonwealth charter schools, and requiring new Horace Mann schools to develop memorandums of understanding with local unions"

Pass a law so they can't steal it all!

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David Guerdette's avatar

Well played, Editix. Well played.

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Charlo's avatar

I love that you did all of this, Becca. This is exactly the right response. I would have absolutely replied with a MMMMHMMM. xo

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Coffee and Chaos's avatar

Keep up the good work, Rebecca!

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Nancy W's avatar

If you had really wanted to get nasty, you could have sent her a link to an article on how to use the comma.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

You go, girl!

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Kel Varnsen's avatar

This is already happening in Indianapolis. The IPS has been so stripped of funds and students that the Indiana legislature is boring to dissolve the IPS

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Kitty Johnson's avatar

I know I just said I love you, Rebecca, for giving us shy people the tools for fighting oppression. But tonight Mr. Sunbeam and I watched ep 6 of True Detective s1, and there was a spooky amount of relevant news about school vouchers and school choice, etc. etc. In addition to being a good amount of Rust and Marty. You're right, you're still right. True Detective s1 called it, you refuted the guys, and we are better for it.

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Mommadillo's avatar

I don’t want to hear a goddamn word about “choice” while Dobbs is the law of the land.

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Dotty's avatar

You should send this info to your local TV station ( the little one ) that would do a story or call the newsroom and ask to speak to a reporter and tell them your proof ..the local people and parents deserve this ...I've learned there's usually one good news person looking for a good story to tell . Especially when it concerns their taxpayers money and corruption and children's education . Expose this BS. The kids and you deserve the truth to be exposed good luck ...if this is the only way to stop a fire .....being in the fire women

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Tom's avatar

Wonkette! Go get ‘em! I’m sorry that you have to do this, but you have to do this. Thank you.

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Jeremy Shatan's avatar

I feel like there’s a point to be made about Jackie’s absolute inability to write in English, but maybe I’m just not up on mommy-thread texting styles 😂.

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Wendy Reid Crisp Lestina's avatar

I've had the DeVos terrors since the early 1970s cult-phenom of Amway (DeVos invention)--an ingenious way to blend redefine greed and blend it into a self-serving form of Christianity (God shows his love for you by giving you the means by which to own a Cadillac; if your friends don't want to become part of this, they don't love you.)

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Suki van Dijk's avatar

Bless you. So sorry you have to deal with this bs.

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Lot⁴⁹'s avatar

Too bad Amy Chua ruined the term "tiger mom" because you are one, in the best possible way.

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Kitty Johnson's avatar

You mean, the old Ivy League gal who tutored JD Vance into being a plausible (?) vice president. And, say, where is Shady Vance right now?

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WokeGrandma's avatar

I hate Betsy DeVos. I also hate her brother, Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater (the org that hired mercenaries to protect the U.S. Green Zone by killing them some extra locals during the U.S. invasion of Iraq). Both of them are despicable human beings.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

Power and money and religion doing a good job of corruption in that family. I heard that the patriarch had affairs while publicly professing his piety.

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Nemo's avatar

As patriarchs are wont to do. That's when they aren't diddling the kiddies, as youth pastors do.

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Doesn't surprise me in the least.

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