Who will fight for public education in 2016?

In her latest blog post, public education advocate Diane Ravitch, the best-selling author and a member of the senior Bush Admnistration's Department of Education, notes what anyone who has been paying attention in education understood a long time ago- Barack Obama is just as much a disaster for education as George W. Bush was:

Frankly, the public education system was better off when George W. Bush was president because Democrats fought him. Under Obama, Democrats fall in line behind the bipartisan (Republican) agenda. No one in D.C. fights the privatization and data gathering and standardization movement. No one stands up and says bluntly that Race to the Top is a failed extension of Bush’s failed No Child Left Behind. No one says that Congress and the administration have overreached for the past dozen years and are hurting children.

The hope for the future is a grassroots movement so vocal and so numerous that the national and state leaders cannot ignore us.