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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch Brothers buy their way into public schools to preach Free Market
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/koch-brothers-education_n_5587577.htmlThe poster encouraged the predominantly poor students at Highland Park to enroll in a new, yearlong course that would provide lessons in basic economic principles and practical instruction on starting a business. Students would receive generous financial incentives including startup capital and scholarships after graduation. The course would begin that fall. Johnson eagerly signed up.
In some ways, the class looked like a typical high school business course, taught in a Highland Park classroom by a Highland Park teacher. But it was actually run by Youth Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit group created and funded primarily by Charles G. Koch, the billionaire chairman of Koch Industries.
The official mission of Youth Entrepreneurs is to provide kids with "business and entrepreneurial education and experiences that help them prosper and become contributing members of society." The underlying goal of the program, however, is to impart Koch's radical free-market ideology to teenagers. In the last school year, the class reached more than 1,000 students across Kansas and Missouri.
Lesson plans and class materials obtained by The Huffington Post make the course's message clear: The minimum wage hurts workers and slows economic growth. Low taxes and less regulation allow people to prosper. Public assistance harms the poor. Government, in short, is the enemy of liberty.
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Koch Brothers buy their way into public schools to preach Free Market (Original Post)
gollygee
Jul 2014
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JustAnotherGen
(32,001 posts)1. Over and over and over again
Whether it is public schools or Historically Black Colleges -
NOTHING those two Kochs (the other brother is not so bad) do is bad. They are always up to something.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. Did you mean what you wrote?
JustAnotherGen
(32,001 posts)4. Yep
They are worthless - for all of their "High Worth" they are worthless.
Look up their 'donation' to the UNCF last month. They are up to no good.
I do not trust the rat bastards. And all this article does is give me more proof that they are evil incarnate to average, every day working Americans.
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