StudentsFirst likes to keep everyone guessing about its true purposes.
It wants “great” teachers but doesn’t think teachers should have any due process rights.
It either supports collective bargaining or is neutral on collective bargaining or is against collective bargaining.
It claims to be a liberal group that “puts students first” but gives campaign funds to reactionary candidates that support the Koch brothers agenda of privatization.
All of this will sort itself out over time, as the facts emerge.
Alexander Russo has a post that clarifies where StudentsFirst stands on collective bargaining. It does not support collective bargaining. It is not neutral on collective bargaining. It opposes collective bargaining.
But, wait. Two hours after Russo put up the post showing how much money StudentsFirst has contributed to campaigns to undermine collective bargaining, StudentsFirst sent him a list of how many times Michelle Rhee has said she supports collective bargaining.
What should we believe? What she says or where the money goes?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Ooh, I know!
Where the money goes! 🙂
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only if it impacts parents of the Students?
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Rhee often does the “I know there are some great teachers out there” dance, but has little interest in placing secure and qualified teachers ahead of the value that can be wrung out of schools, or control of the product edu-factories create.
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