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Thursday, May 24,2012

Romney Faces Tough Crowd During Trip to Charter School

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Mitt Romney made the first foray of his presidential campaign into an impoverished black neighborhood on Thursday. It didn't exactly go as planned for the presumptive Republican nominee.

The Washington Post reports that dozens of West Philadelphia residents shouted "Get out, Romney, get out!" as the candidate's logo-emblazoned campaign bus rolled into town for a meeting at an area charter school, where he was to discuss his proposal to expand publicly-funded charter schools with local educators and civic leaders. (The Associated Press has more on his specific policy proposal here.)

Once inside the Universal Bluford Charter School things didn't get much better, as local educators and leaders were quick to voice their concerns with Romney and his policies.

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