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God bless Leonie. We need to clone her.

I had been feeling very demoralized this week until reading this. I didn’t know of this organization before, and it is incredibly wonderful to know that someone actually cares about class size and is willing to take a stand for what matters most…. of course, it’d also be nice if the UFT would do something. I’d rather send my UFT dues to Leonie’s organization than see it evaporate in the U-Forget-Teachers organization so they can purchase new furniture and artwork at their pristine HQ.

Now if the MSM would cover this. It’s an important message.

Thank you, Leonie! You are a force!!!

Leonie for Chancellor.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. NBC should be ashamed of itself for producing the most one sided spin for policy makers. No parents on their panels! No teachers on their panels, and saddest of all no students on their panels. It was one big Arne Duncan and Michelle Rehee love fest. My God no one question Mayor Bloomberg’s 15 minute rant. His very fuzzy data that was exposed last month went unquestioned. 
Children are more than test scores!

thanks for all the supportive comments above. The point about Bloomberg is that he was allowed to make a 15 min speech on national tv, w/out a single reporter allowed to ask questions, in which he claimed great progress while meanwhile downtown, members of the public and the Council were lambasting his record and pointing out that his claims were based on fraudulent and inflated state test scores. And these guys running the show want to foist this same system on the rest of the country! No one gets this sort of media access except perhaps the president. this points out how the entire extravaganza that should have been called Education Indoctrination was an infomercial, brought to you by the Billionaire boys club of Gates, Broad and Bloomberg.

For more on this see the press release from yesterday, complete w/ quotes from Parents across America, including from New Orleans, at http://www.classsizematters.org/final_press_release_Education_Nation_9.28.10.pdf

Send a message to NBC by signing our protest letter, with 400 signatures and still growing, at http://www.change.org/classsizematters/petitions/view/letter_to_nbc_news_protesting_the_one-sided_presentation_of_education_nation

And my piece in the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonie-haimson/education-indoctrination_b_739768.html