Angie Sullivan regularly writes blast emails to every member of the state legislature and to the state’s journalists. Here is her latest:
CCEA members voted at a General Meeting yesterday to raise dues.
Those teacher union dues will be used to campaign for a billion dollars.
Yes, billion.
Yes, dollars.
We need to think big to win big.
Teachers need those funds to fund class-size reduction. We need additional teachers. We need additional classrooms.
Nevada teachers have the largest class-sizes in the nation.
It is not reasonable to keep piling more and more students into small spaces.
Our eye is on the 2021 Nevada Legislative Session. We will get a billion dollars for kids.
We demand political will to take care of kids.
Here we come.
#Fight4Kids #Billion4Kids
#NVed #NVTeach #Nevada #Vegas
The Teacher MotherJonesing,
Angie.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Wouldn’t it be wild if one of the hundreds of ed reform groups who lobby so intensely (and expensively!) for charters and vouchers put some of that political clout behind an increase in funding that might benefit public school kids?
Weird how they’re always mysteriously…. missing from public school advocacy. Particularly given their constant claim that they are “agnostic” and not ideologically driven.
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