Intercepts
A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.

California Federation of Teachers President Marty Hittelman has no intention of backing down from his comparison of public school parents to “lynch mobs,” telling the Sacramento Bee he used the term “advisedly.”

Hittelman said no racial offense was meant. The term was used to suggest that a parent trigger could be used by charter-school proponents, pushing a self-serving agenda, to create sort of a “mob atmosphere” in gathering parent signatures, he said.

California legislators could have made things much easier for Hittelman if they had simply renamed the “parent trigger” something he could more readily identify with… Card Check for Parents.

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