We are public education students, parents, educators, and advocates from around the country, and we want to have a conversation with you about K-12 education. You have spoken eloquently on the campaign trail about how the billionaire class has rigged our economy.

We need you to know that they are also working at breakneck speed to rig our K-12 education system!

Your tweet about Rahm Emanuel closing schools and firing teachers spoke to us. Did you notice that your only tweet that got more attention in the last month was about your historic upset in Michigan?

We hope you will recognize that your Emanuel tweet was a historic moment in your campaign as well!

If you take up K-12 education issues, we are convinced that you will see similar responses around the country. Public education advocates need a politician who has not been bought by the billionaire class that is intent on destroying our public schools. They have a fervor for standardized tests that are designed to label our schools as failures. Low scores on their standardized tests are then used as the justification for closing schools in high-poverty, urban neighborhoods, which are then replaced with charters run by private operators. Veteran teachers are fired, and replaced by non-union, inexperienced Teach for America recruits.

In Chicago you clearly got a sense of what is happening around the country when you met with public education advocates Asean Johnson, Troy LaRaviere, Rousemary Vega, and Chuy Garcia, and rebuked Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And now you're surging in the polls in Illinois. We ask that you continue to meet with education advocates, and listen to their stories. We also ask that you meet with NPE Action board members and staff to discuss K-12 education policy.

We look forward to the opportunity to share our stories with you.