A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling

[marmar]

from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:


A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling
June 21, 2014

Deep in the heart of Texas, still another billionaire is scheming to make public education a rewarding business investment opportunity.

By Sam Pizzigati


Billionaires have opinions. In a democracy, billionaires have the right to voice these opinions, just like everyone else.

But billionaires don’t just have opinions. They have immense fortunes — and, thanks to these fortunes, enough power to impose their opinions on the rest us.

Need we worry about these impositions? We sure should. Just one example: Billionaire political might has come to constitute a clear and present danger to the single most bedrock institution of our democracy: public education. This danger, as of last week, now stands in starkest relief deep in the heart of Texas.

This past Thursday, the Dallas local school board appointed a 15-member “home-rule” commission designed to end real home rule of the city’s schools — and open the door to education “reforms” that warm the hearts of billionaires. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://toomuchonline.org/a-private-putsch-against-public-schooling/#sthash.kqKESRLe.dpuf

[truth2power]

1. Thanks for posting, marmar. It's always good to know what's going on

with school boards around the country, since the voters in my community saw fit to put a majority of TPers on our board last election.

They immediately set about breaking things.