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In her memo, she wrote: "Many [of the Desert Trails] parents report feeling deceived by the for-profit charter-backed organizers who came in to gather petitions. They actually sued to take their signatures back when they found out they were being used to give their school away to a charter company.

Weingarten knows better. The parents of Desert Trails launched our effort. We were the ones who collected those signatures, not some imaginary for-profit company. We also specifically rejected for-profit transformation proposals. The charter was our last option when the school district refused to hear our concerns. We're offended that she would insinuate we are manipulated by outside interests, when our only interest is our children.

On the panel, she told me how she understood my frustration over my daughter's education and how she shared my goals of giving her a great school.

But after the lights and the cameras turned off, she left the stage and sent a tweet deploring the absence of parents who want "real" empowerment at the panel discussion. I had been sitting right next to her for the entire discussion.

Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. The film adds two unnecessary subplots, one involving a romance between Jamie and the heartthrob teacher Michael Oscar Isaac , and another about Nona's failing marriage with her husband Lance Reddick , who texts her to say "This isn't working" and leaves for no apparent reason, other than to be an absent dad for their son Dante Brown , and then to turn up to hug her at the end.

Rosie Perez is utterly misused as Breena, Nona's best pal at school, and Ving Rhames turns up as the principal of a charter school, who presides over a heartbreaking lottery. Both the lottery scene and the anti-union material seem to be fictionalized versions of material in the powerful documentary " Waiting for Superman ," which covered similar material with infinitely greater depth.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated PG for thematic elements and language. Rosie Perez as Breena. Holly Hunter as Evelyn. Given how contentious education reform is, there are certainly safer roles for Maggie Gyllenhaal, a hip actress on her way up, than playing a mom going head to head with the local teachers union.

Talking point No. Gyllenhaal and her costars are themselves not backing down in the face of criticism that the film is a school reform propaganda piece.