Fantastic news!
Lt. Governor Ralph Northam won the governorship in Virginia, beating Ed Gillespie, who ran a dirty Trump-like campaign, accusing Northam of allying with criminal immigrant gang MS-13, wanting to remove Confederate statues, and supporting unpatriotic athletes.
The major networks just called the race for Northam. They say it is 51-48, but the margin seems likely to grow as the votes roll in from the DC suburbs. Now it is up to 52-47. It will grow. It is currently a 54-45 blowout. Nine points.
Democrats are also picking up seats in the House of Delegates. The GOP author of the phony transgender bathroom bill was defeated. An openly transgender candidate beat him.
The House Majority Whip was defeated. Our friend and reader “Virginia Parent” says that the “charters and choice” issue is dead in Virginia.
It is a wonderful win for a good man who refused to pander.
Dr. Northam went to public schools, supports public schools, does not support charters or vouchers.
Teachers and public school parents turned out in full force for Dr. Northam.
Message to the Democratic Party: Support public schools, and you can win again!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What will Trump’s excuses be for the losses? Will he somehow manage to blame “crooked Hillary” or accuse the Dems of cheating?
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What Trump says does not matter . Ryan and McConnell are puking their guts out . The Democrats should go after the corporate tax cuts and the repeal of the death tax big time.
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The VA-NJ elections are a warning to Republicans: You are going down in 2018,
Message to Democrats: Unite, Fight, Take heart!!
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Ryan and McConnell: very serious case of diarrhea
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Yes! It must be Crooked Hillary. Fake news.
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You promised not to rehash! C’mon!
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Norwegian Filmmaker
It’s her blog . She is entitled to a violation lol
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True! LOL!!!!!
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Trump just tweeted that Gillespie lost because he didn’t fully embrace Trump!!
Gillespie turned racism, anti-immigration, and modeled himself on Trump. But he didn’t invite Trump to campaign for him in Virginia because Trump is unpopular in Va.
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Trump’s tweet about loss in Virginia:
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
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Not going to work for him.
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“did not embrace me,” two thoughts: one, nobody’s got arms that long; two, are you kidding me?
I want retribution for Doug Wilder and Donna Brazile. They should have nothing ever to do with the Democratic Party ever again. They did all they could to undermine Democrats this cycle.
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GregB
I agree 100% . As did the older woman in my indivisible group, an environmental advocate who also confronts our center right “Problem Solver “democratic congressman.. The language she used I can not use on Diane’s site.
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The Kochs & their dark money lost big time in VA. Virginia Parent told me they were setting up their fake news & dirty tricks operations last year in the surrounding counties. Her parent group was very aware of their influence & worked hard to counter their self-serving campaign.
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He and his minions are going to have to face the truth. Trumpism has galvanized a lot of thinking, caring voters –and this is only the beginning of a backlash against the ignorance, hatred and selfishness promulgated by him, the GOP and their wealthy donors:
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Yes!
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Even us Berniecrats are smiling ear to ear.
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You’ll be happy to learn that Lee Carter is a Berniecrat and dan on single payer. He won the 50th district and beat the Republican House Majority Leader!!! I handed out sample ballots at a precinct in his district for 3 hours today in the oouring rain! The weather was lousy today m….cold & pouring rain…& it was still a blowout!!!
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Sorry WON (not dan)… on single payer. Pls excuse my typing trying to communicate with dozens of friends and groups tonight!!!
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Please excuse my typing tonight….!!!! Ain’t easy on the iPhone when I’m esctatic!
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So happy for Virginia, for America.
Thank you for giving all of us hope!
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Steve Bannon predicted that Gillespie would win by mimicking Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/as-gillespie-adopts-trumpian-tactics-in-virginia-bannon-credits-corey-stewart/2017/11/05/cb32b5ac-bf5b-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.eea7fa1c9dd7
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Bannon predicts Gillespievictory as Trumpism without Trump:
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-bannon-trumpism-virginia-election-702954
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Correction: Lee Carter beat the House Majority Whip (not leader)
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Yeah!!!! Virginia voted right.
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Healthcare was biggest issue in exit polls. I wonder how that breaks down .
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Your last sentence says it all,
Hooray for Dr. Northam and Virginia.
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Winning is good but we need to win to change things for the better. As long as demos do this, make things better for their constituents, i’m Happy.
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Virginia Parent wherever you are: you were right and I’m so happy I was wrong!
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I’m here!!! We were working our tails off at the grassroots and it paid off!!! I can report that all of our House of Delegates candidates who won tonight in Prince William County along with Northam & Fairfax & Herring are fully onboard with the public school agenda!!! We know these candidates personally they are our neighbors and friends and are not in the pockets of the Koch Brothers! For the next 4 years in Virginia, the CHARTER SCHOOLS & CHOICE debate is OVER!!! Instead Dr. Northam & his team will focus on increasing pay for teachers, reducing testing, increasing recess and school nurses, increasing equity and more vocational opportunities for students!
Danica Roem is now MY DELEGATE in the 13th district and was in my living room 1-1/2 weeks ago for 2 hours talking about public education with about 20-25 parents & teachers. She beat a 26 year incumbent!
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Congratulations, Virginia Parent!!!!
Parents and teachers together. You did it. All those pollsters who called the election for Gillespie or called it a squeaker should hang their heads in shame.
It is a blowout for Northam!
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Virginia Parent,
Hooray for you and the other citizens of VA. This is indeed GREAT NEWS!
Thank you and the other VA citizens for saying NO to charters and YES to public schools and public school teachers, both National treasures and should NOT be for sale.
Kudos!
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Thank you! I will pass this onto the other teachers, parents, winning candidates & politicians who were on our side here in Prince William County, Virginia’s 2nd largest!
I just learned that yesterday in Prince William County we Democrats held only 2/8 House of Delegates seats. Today we hold all 8! It was a clean sweep! (Keep in mind that turncoat Democrats who have sold out to corporate ed reformers largely do not exist in our state, so this is all good!)
Our de facto community leader who is a middle school history teacher just told us the following: enjoy tonight because tomorrow we start working on the 2018 & 2019 county elections. Our goal is to win all 8 seats on the Board of County Supervisors & all 8 seats on the School Board. Then we can fully fund our county schools (which have the largest class sizes in all of Virginia and the lowest teacher pay in Northern Virginia) & reduce the damn pretests and benchmarks the county adds-on to the state standardized tests.
I guess we better tell the KOCH BROTHERS who opened an office in our county last spring that it’s time for them to PACK THEIR BAGS AND GO HOME!!!
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Virginia Parent,
How many seats flipped in House of Delegates? How many will be Dems?
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Diane, four races were still being counted so sorry for the late response.
The House of Delegates is now split 50-50! It was a +16 pickup for the Democrats. Prior to yesterday’s election the Republicans held 66 seats & the Democrats 34. At best we were hoping for a +6-8 pickup. No one imagined this!! The key was running candidates in most districts where Democrats hadn’t before, thereby ceding these seats uncontested to the Republicans.
In my county of Prince William, Democrats went into the election holding only 2 out of our 8 seats. We won all 8! All 8 of our candidates ran on a pro-public schools platform.
I don’t know of one Democratic candidate statewide who ran on charters & choice. I believe there were none. The Koch Brothers infiltrated our state and all the Republican candidates enbraced their charters & choice agenda.
Two teachers won!! Schuyler VanValkenberg inHD -72 in Sothern Va and Cheryl Turpin in HD-85 (not sure where this district is located). My understanding is both made public education a top issue.
Many of the candidates you endorsed (if not all) won. I’d have to doublecheck when I have time.
A great day for Virginia! A great day for the United States! A great day for public education!
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Oh my! I just learned there is a recount in District 94 in Newport News where pro-public education Democratic candidate, Shelly Simmonds, lost by only 12 votes!! We might flip this district and the House of Delegates yet!!!
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Correction: 2018 are the congressional elections & 2019 are our local county supervisors and school board elections.
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You are all amazing! Congratulations on a well-earned victory.
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Thank you, Diane!! You are my hero and I’ve learned so much from you!!! You played a role in tonight’s victory, too!
It was all hands onboard in Virginia! It started with the Indivisible groups forming immediately after the 2016 election and dozens of other groups I cannot even name! While canvassing these past weeks, I personally met volunteers from NYCity, Wash D.C., Arlington Va (very blue) and California!!! Yes, a group from California canvassed with us for days in Prince William County…arrived on Sat & staying here til tomorrow! They paid for a mobile billboard for us that drove around the county with the message: “DEMOCRATS GET OFF YOUR (donkey picture) & VOTE” on one side and “VIRGINIA IS FOR VOTERS” on the other side!!
Thank you, America!!!
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Great job, Virginia! Thank you, Virginia Parent, for you activism!
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Our pleasure! A couple of teachers reached out to me on a local Facebook education page a few years ago and it snowballed from there. We are parents and teachers united! On the parent side, some of us advocate for more recess, some for less high stakes testing, some for more school nurses and others for equitable treatment of all students & non-discrimination.
At an education town hall this past May, then Democratic primary candidate, Dr. Ralph Northam, listened to all of us for 2 hours. That’s when I knew this guy cares and understands. That’s when I became active in his campaign. After the townhall is also when we started meeting informally with our local delegate candidates for coffee and lunch and dinner to chat about public ed, sometimes in groups as small as four. We gave them books and articles to read about the subversion of public education by high stakes testing and corporate ed reformers. Being products of public education themselves, they understood and believed in our cause.
Together we are stronger!
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We shouldn’t take these victories as a repudiation of trump but as a win for the American people. Let’s dedicate these wins to getting back on track for the benefit of all.
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63% of young voters under 45 voted for Northam .He lost the over 45 vote by a point or two. I wonder where they stand on the political spectrum of the Democratic party . To say the least , it would appear there is nothing to motivate young voters to come out in an off off year like Trump. I wonder how they feel on Universal Healthcare on College tuition.
Just throwing that out there .
The issue of Statues seemed to favor the Republicans 60% . But they voted on other issues. So I would melt the statues and dump them in the sea, but that may not be the type of issue that means anything to actual voters.
Big Bird wins in NY I am so shocked. (NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Ending Health Care, ending the deductibility of student loans, taxing graduate school tuition remissions, protecting student loan and for profit college vultures, reneging on loan forgiveness for those who are approaching 10 years in public service, limiting Title IX protections, slashing Pell grants. There are many reasons for young people to hate Trump and the GOP.
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Hmmm. Maybe that Soylent Green wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
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Yea for Big Bird. Never been so happy to hear I told you so’s. Plus truly delighted at Virginia’s repudiation of the Trump surrogate. And a huge win for public education in that state. Hooray!
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Ballot initiative to turn Staten Island into a huuuuuuuuuge land fill to follow . Big Bird’s margin of victory and the 4 to 1 defeat of Con Con is a huge win for NY Teachers and Public Workers , as well as other unions . This translates to support for the AFT in their battle against charters and for public schools. I suspect the Cuomo may be saying EVA who ! at this point. Just as he tried to distance himself from visibly supporting common core and testing . (emphasis visibly) when it became a hot potato.
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Maine Ballot Question 2: Expand Medicaid Eligibility
Yes 150,040 59.2%
No 103,570 40.8
Think they want Universal Health Care. Susan Collins watch how you vote on cutting taxes for the wealthy. .
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More fantastic news for the Democratic Party: Steve Sweeney, leader of the NJ senate, cruised to an easy victory over a Trump- and Christie-endorsed opponent who was showered with an astounding $8 million and endorsed by . . . the state teachers union, the NJEA (?).
http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-new-jersey-state-senate-president.html
Glad that the Democratic wave extended well down the ballot in NJ, VA, and beyond.
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Tim,
Sweeney’s Race must be a big deal for charter supporters. Sweeney is a huge charter advocate. He was not on my radar screen. I’m ecstatic about the Democratic sweep in Virginia. No more charters in Virginia beyond the 9 controlled by their local districts.
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$8 million diverted from far more competitive races and to support a Republican candidate who is fully on board with the very worst of Trump’s racism and xenophobia. Who lost by 20 points tonight.
Forget about the self-inflicted damage the NJEA brought upon itself within NJ. How can anyone anywhere take seriously the claim that unions are the only thing that’s protecting progressive policies when one of the most powerful locals just threw $8 million at a dog-whistling Trump-approved Republican?
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The charter-choice conversation is OVER in Virginia for the next 4 years. Instead the good Dr. Northam will tend to the ed issues that really matter and will make a real difference in students lives!
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Tim – lamest troll I’ve seen in a long time (and I’ve seen a lot of trolling). I would have run naked (Lord help the viewing public) through Glassboro if Sweeney lost. NJEA was tilting at windmills and you’re trolling.
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$8 million to a Trump-supporting, Christie-loving, huge DeVos fan who was routed by 20. You don’t get to slough this off with “tilting at windmills”; no progressive will take the NJEA seriously for a generation.
Glad the guy who more than anyone else helped the state weather the Christie era was returned to office in a landslide.
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Yes, Tim, they should have given the money to Eva instead of Steve Sweeney.
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No, giving the money to a charter school network in New York would be a really weird thing for the NJ teacher’s union to do! I was thinking the resources could have gone to the three Democratic NJ state senate candidates who lost their races by five points or less. Instead the NJEA chose to alienate a generation of voters and Democratic electeds by spending an astounding $360 per vote supporting a Trump-loving Republican who lost by 18. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Tim,
I agree with you. A sad waste of money on a turncoat.
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Hip, Hip Hooray!! Finally some good news. Great news for VA and NJ. We in NJ will finally be rid of the WORST education governor in my memory….Christie was the anti-education governor.
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Congratulations to NJ!! Congratulations to VA! Congratulations to the USA!
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Doesn’t look good for ed reformers in Colorado:
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Denver Public Schools election results, Denver post
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Wonderful news. I have to believe that Trump is the death rattle of an ugly era that we shall soon put behind us.
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The obscenity of his attacks on people of color, on women, on LGBT people, on the poor, on the middle class, on the elderly, on the very people who elected him to office is becoming increasingly clear, even to those stupid enough to have voted for him in the first place. Trump is the best argument one could make for booting the Repugnicans from office. I guess Americans have to learn the hard way.
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It’s as though this guy sits up late at night, watching Fox News and thinking, “Great! Another major portion of the electorate that I totally alienate!” And then he tweets. And the next day, his people try to do damage control.
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Ralph Northam’s BIG victory was a huge win for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and for the nation. It was a direct repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. It was an outright rejection of racism and white nationalism.
The Democratic win was a sweep of all the top spots. Justin Fairfax beat Jill Vogel, a real witch, who represents big corporate interests and right-wing PACS. Incumbent Mark Herring beat right-wing social issues Neanderthal John Adams. And self-described “chief homophobe”of the General Assembly Bob Marshall got beat by Danica Roem, a transgender candidate, by nearly 10 points. In fact, after some recounts, the Dems may have won the House of Delegates, a very large turn-around.
It just may be that this is the beginning of something bigger in the country. Maybe.
In one central Virginia school board race I cited in a different thread, one of the Trumpies won (a local guy, volunteer fireman) and one of them (the Abu Ghraib investigator who could find no wrongdoing) lost. So in that division, the schools appear to have been saved from a take-over by the crazies. And in another central Virginia school district – one that bills itself as “innovative” at nearly every new dawn – not much changes. Two incumbents won, and sadly, so did a TFA alum who got thousands in TFA contributions. So, same old same old. STEM. Techno-addiction. Top-down. Disrespect teachers.
Anyone wishing to search the Virginia election results can do so here:
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/Statewide.html
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You’ve summed up the big wins nicely! Thanks for the info on the School Board races in Central Va & the link.
It’s strange that TFA has infiltrated some school divisions in Central Virginia but not in Northern Virginia. I’m happy that the Koch Brothers’ charter schools & choice mailers for Delegates races failed to persuade!
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Let’s hope the Democrats can take the momentum, unite and run with it instead of fighting each other.
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there is probably a better place to put this, but we were pleased to see that MALDEN MA had a victory last night.
“happened up here in Malden, MA, but due to our big charter school ballot question last year, we’re maybe a little more ahead on shining bright lights on dark money and that candidate LOST (big, too). Here’s the post on the money: http://blogs.wgbh.org/…/11/1/what-going-ward-3-malden/
It can be done.” the words are borrowed from Tracy O’Connell Novick (Who’s Worcester)
Thank you Tracy for all your hard work in support of MA schools.
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Jean,
Congratulations!
I posted Maurice Cunningham’s article about Malden and big money. Please write more about the race and the vote totals.
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Jean, thanks for your kind words.
Diane, what’s interesting is that it doesn’t come up in the local coverage of the races. I’ve checked all of the Malden sources (see, for example, here: https://www.itemlive.com/2017/11/07/malden-vote-may-decide-fate-citys-top-finance-officer/) and there’s no mention of the connections.
I do think, to Jean and others’ points elsewhere, that we may be a bit more alerted to this in Massachusetts after our experience last year.
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Diane,
Here is a link to the election results on our race: http://www.cityofmalden.org/sites/default/files/nov17final_0.pdf
A year ago, our community voted overwhelmingly against charter school expansion. The same community parents that were a voice on that campaign came out to fight against dark money and were loud and proud that school committee seats can not be bought. In the end, we won. However, the biggest winner in this race was public education.
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Haverhill also voted 60/40 against charters. But the Boston Globe reports we will be getting them anyway just like Brockton. Stay vigilant. they are using euphemisms: no “innovation” school because they have dropped charter and replaced it with other words (special schools, innovative school) and it all means the same thing; no local school board and a group of entrepreneurs become your “board” and a “Manager” is the superintendent. Do not drop your guard for one minute while Gov. Baker is in office and we have that current BESE; the bureaucrats on the staff at BESE do not protect and defend our public schools . The board members like Peyser, Sagan have a particular ideology that they want in place. Also, they continue to insist on paying for corporate Pearson et al to develop tests and use our students as the guinea pigs to build a marketable test (hoping to sell it down the road as they have in Rhode Island). Stay in touch with Lisa Guisbond at Fairtest.
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Thank you for following our local race in MALDEN, MA. Our victory was not limited to the School Committee and our fight to keep outside, privatization of education $$ out of our district! Engaged citizens put their noses to the grindstone in support of Jennifer Spadafora, a pro-public candidate, who won apx. 60:40 over LEE-backed candidate Mekka Smith, whose campaign was funded 97.5% from outside our city and who had (conservatively) 15x the usual campaign chest to spend. In our City Council race, citizen action supported 2 challengers who each bested one of the most conservative voices on the Council. David Camell won over Jerry Leone about 60:40 in Ward 6 and Stephen Winslow won over incumbent David D’Arcangelo in the at-large race by a comparative margin of under 2%.
Notably, a broad slate of progressive or more-progressive challengers erased the perceived entitlement in many races, as multiple incumbents fought to EARN the vote.
MATV, our hyper-local public television station provided live analysis of the vote and discussed the charter/public issue at length. Longtime city news men anchoring the broadcast remarked with excitement that in many years of covering local politics, they had never seen anything like yesterday’s election in Malden! Full results: http://www.cityofmalden.org/sites/default/files/nov17final_0.pdf
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That is so awesome!!! The grassroots fights back!!!
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It is always a victory when big money goes down. It shows that the voters are alert and ready to make a difference.
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also, in Worcester and Haverhill we were able to convince voters “do not vote fear”…. there has been a troubling undercurrent of attacks on immigrants…. and last night a new state assembly rep from Haverhill was elected 50% to 44% . Tracy O’Connell Novick also wrote about that in Worcester (our second largest city after Boston).
defeat the fear mongering
And in two cities the mayoral election was viewed as supporting Foundation Budget and improving resources for our local pubic schools. Tracy is writing this and I don’t want to take all her words without giving her credit for “who’s Worcester” blog …. She is also good on explaining. budgets — the best — and works out of the MA Association of School Committees
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words you might not hear anywhere else: Virginia Parent” says that the “charters and choice” issue is dead in Virginia.
It is a wonderful win for a good man who refused to pander.
Dr. Northam went to public schools, supports public schools, does not support charters or vouchers.
Teachers and public school parents turned out in full force for Dr. Northam.
Message to the Democratic Party: Support public schools, and you can win again!
The same people who regularly serve as a punching bag for Donald Trump—the fake news people—-will waste a lot of time punching back at a man who finds them useful———AND MOST OF THEM WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIND THE TIME TO SAY ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT THIS ASPECT OF THE VIRGINIA RESULTS.
Education is not important enough, or too boring, or too hard to explain—-we have to trust instincts of people to figure out what is going on for themselves.
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Spot on analysis, Joe!
You’re right that no media outlets will pick up on the education story.
There is is one exception: in its endorsement of Dr. Northam, the Washington Post Editorial Board chastised him for wanting to “kill” standardized testing and insulted our state for the few charter schools we have. They will continue to attack him in this regard when he takes office. We all need to have his back.
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Ha! I’m glad that the Washington Post made it so clear that they hated that Northam didn’t support charters.
Maybe that’s why he won so big! Thanks, Washington Post!
Please media, do your job and feel free to attack any Democratic candidate very loudly and very clearly for their very strong support of public schools and their pro-public schools positions. Please loudly criticize them for not being more supportive of private charters and high stakes tests.
That could really help elect more Democrats.
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Yeah, and Jay Mathews – who slobbers over AP every chance he gets – chastised the state of Virginia for dropping a US History Standards of Learning test.
As Mathews put it, “I always liked Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests, particularly U.S. History to 1865 in fifth grade, U.S. History 1865 to Present in middle school and the high school exam…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/why-is-virginia-cradle-of-america-killing-its-us-history-tests/2017/10/01/2badd76e-a255-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.641225e16391
The Mathews criticism was picked up by resident twit at The Federalist, Joy Pullman, who then went on to cite a survey sponsored by the Milton Friedman Foundation stating that nearly two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied with public schools and that public education is a “failed system.”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/04/thanks-to-testing-backlash-virginia-drops-u-s-history-tests-despite-horrific-knowledge-levels/
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You’re right, I forgot about Matthews! I remember reading his dribble about the elimination of the History SOL (thanks Governor McAuliffe!), but wasn’t aware of The Federalist piling on. Thanks for alerting us.
Of course we have Valerie Strauss’s wonderful column at the WaPo…thank goodness!
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I agree!
And please send that message to Progressives, too!
The progressive candidates might have a better chance of winning if they strongly supported public schools.
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I was at a very funny show last night in Chicago–a wonderful group that shortened its name (was Democracy Burlesque, now DB–“DB Comedy–Because Democracy is a Burlesque”))held the third in it’s series of skits covering all the presidents through he-who-shall-not-be-named. Anyway, at the show’s beginning, the director came out & announced the ongoing election news, giving us updates at intermission & at the end. The packed house went wild!!! People stayed well past the end to celebrate (the venue has a bar). This troupe does wonderful political comedy–if you are in the Chicago area, they will do shows for groups–web: dbcomedy.com Last but not least, they generously host a “Cause Celebre” at each show–hosting non-profit grassroots organizations (they give each org. half their profits, & a group rep. gives a five minute speech about their org. at intermission, gets people signed up, hands out flyers, etc.) DB has helped over “40 groups raise cash & awareness.” (e.g., IL Frack Free, Clean Count Cook County {a group that works to ensure fair elections through investigation & prevention of election fraud}).
Anyway, THANK YOU VIRGINIA!!!! (& congrats NJ & NYC & everywhere else voters used their voting power to RESIST!)
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