According to one Democratic education reformer, the Democratic Party’s platform draft has been “hijacked” in a “bait and switch.”
“After putting forward a progressive and balanced education agenda in the initial draft of the 2016 Democratic Platform, this weekend the Platform Drafting Committee inexplicably allowed the process to be hijacked at the last minute,” Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform, said in a press release. “What happened in Orlando is little more than a bait and switch, one we are eager to fix, and which we hope is unreflective of Hillary Clinton’s priorities, as she has repeatedly supported standards and accountability and high-performing charter schools.”
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