If you live in the 71th district in Michigan, I urge you to help elect Theresa Abed to the legislature as a member of the House.
The 17th is Eaton County, west of Lansing.
Theresa is a career school social worker (for 30 years) when she decided to run for office to support the schools. She was twice elected to the post of County Commissioner. She served as state representative from 2012-2014, the first Democrat to win that seat in 50 years.
When end she ran for re-election in 2014, she lost by only 148 votes to a candidate funded by the Koch brothers.
She is running for state representative for her district in 2016, and she needs our help. She is fighting for public education. She understands children and schools and will be a great advocate for Real Reform in the legislature. She is a member of the Network for Public Education; she attended our annual conference in 2015 in Chicago.
If you live in her district, please volunteer to help. If you don’t, please consider a gift to her campaign. She will be a great advocate for children and schools in the Michigan legislature.
You can send a contribution to Theresa at:
Friends for Theresa Abed
605 Schoolcraft St.
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Good news for parents & charter schools! State House stands tall for school choice in Detroit and all of Michigan.”
Sadly, no good news to report for parents and public schools.
They don’t even try to hide it any more. It is all about privatization. There’s nary a mention of public schools. Completely omitted from ed reform echo chamber discussion.
Someone should tell the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Ed Reform Team that it’s odd to claim support of “public schools” yet never mention public schools. Not everyone is in the club.
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Ed reform really blundered on Detroit. It’s a far Right plan that is mostly about punishing political enemies.
Michigan is at 80% for-profit charters now. With the new Wild West of privatization launching, they’ll be worse than Ohio in a couple of years.
The Agnostics got rolled by privatization zealots. Again. Like they always do.
You wonder how many times this has to happen before they wise up. Newsflash: it isn’t about “the kids”.
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