As Laura Clawson writes at The Daily Kos, Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst honored an anti-gay legislator in Tennessee as its “legislator of the year.” Last year, the organization picked a Georgia legislator known for his strident anti-immigrant views.
Rhee supported 105 candidates in 2012. 90 were Republicans.
Her organization spent nearly $1 million in Tennessee legislative races to make sure the state legislature was in the hands of the most rightwing candidates, the ones who would push hard for privatization and for stripping teachers of any job protection and academic freedom.
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Hey, I knew she was a weirdo, but I didn’t expect her to go all Westboro Baptist Church on us.
It should come as no surprise that legislators who have no regard for the civil rights of adults would also have no regard for the civil rights of children.
Perhaps its apparent to Rhee that Democratic Party claims of support for human rights are specious.
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/hr/treaties/index.htm
What else would you expect out of someone as corrupt as she is?
It’s amazing how human beings, made up of the same basic components can have such different views about doing right by children. Too bad they can’t elevate the essential academic subjects as well as they encourage ignorance and hate.
It looks like StudentsFirst is serving as a lobbyist for privatizers by getting money from corporations who can brag in their annual reports to shareholders that they are supporting “school reform” by giving money to her organization…
There is a log more about John Ragan in this article. All of these corporate reformers are a little club giving each other awards and the corporate press dutifully reports whatever they do.
State lawmaker Ragan is a former Teach for America Teacher and a top contributor to StudentsFirst. Michelle Rhee’s ex-husband, who has custody of her children, is Tennessee Commissioner of Education.
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