The following update is by Sue Peters, a founding member of Parents Across America and Parents Across America -Seattle, where over the course of the past year, grassroots organizing, community members and stakeholders  have beaten down the forces of corporate reform several times, including in the latest school board elections. Amazingly, the State of Washington still does not allow charter schools, in the backyard of that privatization juggernaut, the Gates Foundation.  This year, Seattle has also forced the resignation of … →