The Ugly Truth Behind The Campaign To Kill School Choice
They’ve worked with activist reporters in the legacy media with ties to the Red for Ed teachers’ union to push false claims about it. But they made a very different choice when it came time to build their campaign.Instead of relying on volunteers — as real grassroots efforts would do — the campaign relied heavily on paid petition circulators. In fact, well over 80% of the signatures submitted were from paid circulators, not volunteers.
- ▪They’ve worked with activist reporters in the legacy media with ties to the Red for Ed teachers’ union to push false claims about it.
- ▪But they made a very different choice when it came time to build their campaign.Instead of relying on volunteers — as real grassroots efforts would do — the campaign relied heavily on paid petition circulators.
- ▪In fact, well over 80% of the signatures submitted were from paid circulators, not volunteers.
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OpinionThe Ugly Truth Behind The Campaign To Kill School ChoiceThe teachers' unions and their allies at Save Our Schools (SOS) have proven time and time again that they will do anything to kill universal school choice in Arizona.SMScot Mussiin Daily Caller News Foundation2h ago · 5 min readFollowdailycallernewsfoundation.orgAdvertisementThe teachers’ unions and their allies at Save Our Schools (SOS) have proven time and time again that they will do anything to kill universal school choice in Arizona.They’ve fought expansion of the program. They’ve pushed to cap it. They’ve worked with activist reporters in the legacy media with ties to the Red for Ed teachers’ union to push false claims about it.
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