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Vote NO! on Initiative 729 (Charter Schools) |
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From: Barbara Mertens
To: gparrish@seatttleweekly.com
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: Initiative 729
I thoroughly enjoyed your article "Political
Education". I thought you might be interested in viewing the
"No!"I-729 website at www.i729.org
You are right--we are small. So far our total budget is $1,500.
Even so, we do have a message and we're not giving up without a
fight.
For example, Paul Allen does stand to profit from I-729.
The "applicant" board for a charter school must be a
non-profit organization. However, the initiative
specifically allows these boards to CONTRACT with any public or
private entity...for any and all real property, equipment, goods,
supplies, and services including educational INSTRUCTIONAL services.
(That's the Edison Schools, INC.) I-729 New Section Sec.3.(2).
I am the Assistant Executive Director for the
Washington Association of School Administrators. We have a
separate PAC Board (WSA-PAC) which voted to contribute $1,000 from our
meager budget to use as seed money to get the opposition message out
--knowing full well that we could never raise $2M and even if we did
Allen would throw in another $2M or more. Even though we may not
agree with your position on the initiative--your point about buying
elections is extremely important. Thank you for bringing it to
the attention of the public.
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