A missed opportunity for the White House

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Late last week, a few days before the Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C., organized to protest the Obama administration?s standardized test-centric school reform policies, an invitation to several of the march leaders materialized from the White House.

After many months of planning the march, after letters were sent to President Obama asking him to reconsider policies that blamed teachers for things they were not responsible, after pleas to U.S. officials to listen to critics, a message was sent saying that a handful of march leaders could come to the White House last Friday to meet with Roberto J. Rodr�guez, special assistant to Obama for education.

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