Shipps covers more than a century's worth of school shake - ups, led
mostly by business groups — none of which led to any substantive improvements for children educated in Chicago schools.
NYPALS currently is represented
by one of the state's most prominent public strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of
mostly business groups, and Success Academy.
As critical as Johnston and the AFT's Brenda Smith were to passage of SB 191, it would have not passed had there not been support
by many other legislators on both sides of the aisle, including Senator Spence, Representatives Murray and Scanlan along with Speaker Carroll, Lt. Governor O'Brien, Colorado Education Commissioner Jones and a broad coalition of
business, education, and civil rights
groups,
mostly coordinated
by Colorado DFER and Colorado Stand for Children.