Subject: [big campaign] Fwd: Assembly GOP Drops Green Bay Private School Scheme After One Wisconsin Now Open Records Request
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:39:21 -0400
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Just another example of how a small group of nimble, tenacious folks can
keep power from abusing power... that's what we do!

Another great job by our WI affiliate, One Wisconsin Now!

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From: One WI Now <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM
Subject: Assembly GOP Drops Green Bay Private School Scheme After One
Wisconsin Now Open Records Request
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*For Immediate Release
June 15, 2011*
*Contact: Cody Oliphant
Phone: 608-204-0677*

 Assembly GOP Drops Green Bay Private School Scheme After One Wisconsin Now
Open Records Request *Advocacy Groups Seeks Private School Industry
Communications with Five Legislators
*

Madison -- Assembly Republicans have backed down from a controversial plan
to siphon millions per biennium from Green Bay public schools to support
private schools, just days after One Wisconsin Now filed a comprehensive
open records request with five top legislators seeking communications
between their offices and numerous representatives of the school
privatization industry.

“If Green Bay public school dollars remain in place to support Green Bay
public school students, this is a win,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now
Executive Director. “We are even more interested now in our open records
request to see how this scheme hastily evolved in the first place, and why
it may have collapsed under impending public scrutiny.”

One Wisconsin Now filed the open records request with the offices of Sens.
Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling and Luther Olsen, and Reps. John Nygren and
Robin Vos. The request seeks appointment calendars, as well as
correspondence and email communications between the legislative offices and
numerous organizations within the school privatization industry and their
confederates.

An example of the request filed with Sen. Cowles office is available at:
http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/blog/One%20WI%20Now%20Cowles%20ORR.pdf<http://onewisconsinnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=C3b1lpwYa36JWXwXcn3Lmw..>

One Wisconsin Now filed the request after an odd series of circumstances
that occurred during the waning days of the budget-writing Joint Finance
Committee. The GOP-controlled JFC passed an omnibus motion for education
that included expansion of private school dollars to Racine and other areas
on Thursday, June 3. Then suddenly the following day after all education
matters had been done, Republicans passed a motion to expand school
privatization into Green Bay.

Among the organizations One Wisconsin Now asked for communications regarding
include: the American Federation for Children, School Choice Wisconsin,
Education Action Group Foundation, Wisconsin Charter Schools Association and
the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.

“Republicans are gutting funds for public education by $1.6 billion, but
they are pumping tens of millions of dollars more to support private
schools,” said Ross. “Taxpayers deserve to know how Green Bay kids were
suddenly facing millions more in lost funding because of arm-twisting and
backroom deals.”

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effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive
leadership and values.

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