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Stand for Children in Oregon

More from Oregon, where the Democratic governor has just rammed through more than a dozen substantive education bills over the not-yet-quite-dead bodies of their teachers' union opponents. The passage of these bills is significant for two reasons - first, of course, because they figure to improve public education, but also because they demonstrate that the teachers' unions are no longer invincible. 

The article is also interesting because it highlights the important support of a grassroots group called Stand for Children, saying that the group used to mostly advocate for more funding for public schools but now have evolved into a real force for change. You never know, maybe Ontario's People for Education will follow the same path!