Washington State Fight between Fully-Funding Public Ed and Charter Schools
Let's start with charters. You may recall the "yet another faux ed reform group" called Act Now for Washington Students . This group is organized by the usual suspects - LEV, Stand for Children, DFER and the Washington State Charter Schools Association. All these get money from the Gates Foundation. They have formed a PAC that hopes to raise (and presumably spend) $500,000 just for this legislative session to influence legislators on charter schools. They have already spent $20K on 13 House members (each got $1,000) including Seattle's charter cheerleader, Eric Pettigrew. This is in addition to the number of print and tv ads running. It is not cheap to run a local ad during football Sunday.