They have used manipulation, intimidation, and artifice, to get parents to unwittingly sign their petitions. It is well documented that they do not present facts, particularly to non English speaking parents, and they manipulate them to sign. Ben Austin and his cohorts make huge salaries for this endeavor, and this USC meeting, as was the Oct. 29, 2013, farce at Beaudry, was financed by the billionaires who want to decimate public schools and teachers unions. The generally bussed-in t-shirt brigade, who are at every meeting wearing their ParentRev uniforms, are one more way that these wealthy players denigrate inner city residents…using them for publicity, photo ops, and to foster their own greedy agendas.