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Time Magazine Names Blumenfeld Activist Group to Notable List
Sworn in to the La Cañada Unified School District in November, Andrew Blumenfeld is a member of Students for Education Reform. The group's young founders were recognized by Time magazine as activists to watch in 2012.
Time magazine mentioned Andrew Blumenfeld--one of the two new governing board members of --in association with its list of education activists to watch out for in 2012.
Blumenfeld, who'll turn 21 this month, is a member of Students for Education Reform (SFRE), founded in 2009 by two of his undergraduate peers at Princeton: Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin, according to Time's website.
Bellinger and Morin were named in Time's list, joining notables such as Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, and Virginia elementary school teacher John Hunter, who in 1978 designed a game for fourth graders that forecast either global doom or global cooperation.
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According to the Time article, Bellinger's and Morin's goal was to mobilize college students, and get them to support education reform in the voting booth and in state capitals.
Enter Blumenfeld: The graduate successfully unseated multiple-term school board incumbent Jeanne Broberg in November and continues to advocate for education reform. He is a junior at Princeton, but flies back to La Cañada for meetings and other board business.
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Since its founding, SFER has grown to 71 chapters in 28 states.
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