Stand For Children Leader Taking Heat

Jonah Edelman
By COREY PAUL

Jonah Edelman, the chief executive of Stand for Children, a national education reform group based in Portland, has been forced to eat his words after bragging in a June 28 video about outfoxing Illinois teachers' union leaders and legislators earlier this year.

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