Reuters reports on Michelle Rhee’s ties to Wall Street and extreme legislators like Florida’s Rick Scott and Ohio’s John Kasich.

This week we talk about voters approving school budgets in New York, the Illinois pension coalition releasing a new video, the Maryland legislature’s special session that avoided education cuts by closing tax loopholes and feature a great video created by AP and honors students in Florida who were forced into remedial classes after failing a standardized test.

Romney says he will enact a national “right to work” law on his first day as president and will take on organized workers

ALEC’s “whack-a-mole” legislative strategy can be defeated by public school advocates working together.

Educators and parents mobilized to defeat out-of-state corporate education reformers in state legislatures