Although it is true religious Republicans have panted to make public education a theocratic endeavor for a few decades, it is probably true their efforts became paramount after a long-term study’s results last year confirmed their worst nightmare.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* One of the downsides of investigating, observing, and opining on the state of American politics is the relatively rare case of uncontrollable rage; not at what’s happening, but that it is happening precisely as no small number of opinion columnists and commentators warned incessantly it would….
DeVos has an appalling record on civil rights, no experience in or around public schools, and is intent on dismantling the American education system.
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
“It is just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society’s problems. Where I come from, teachers are the solution.”
The Kansas bill creates private school savings and funding programs by diverting public education funding to private and religious schools
A new nationwide poll shows the American people overwhelmingly agree that public education should not exist to enrich and profit the charter school privatization movement and they are demanding strong regulatory laws to “rein in documented fiscal malfeasance by private charter schools.”
The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled, in a very one-sided decision of 6 – 3 that charter schools are unconstitutional
Although Republicans have not had as much success transferring taxpayer funding for public education to corporations at the federal level, Republican governors have made raiding public education a bonanza for corporate charter and private religious schools.
If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the abject 20-year failure of the charter school industry
If, as privatization “reformers” in Republican, corporate, and Obama Education Department claim that America’s public schools are dire failures, then America’s wealthy public schools with unionized teachers, and tenure, would be failing and not at the “top of the international charts.”
Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of Republicans as the ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that the GOP are ultimately monumental givers; it is that spirit of generosity that drives their habit of robbing the people.
Republicans, privatization advocates, religious extremists, ALEC, and anti-union fascists contend that America’s public schools are failures, but for the first time in American history the national high school graduation rate surpassed 80% in 2012 and is projected to reach 90% by 2020.
The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.