A theory that may explain school privatization, charter schools, etc.

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2. The major Conservative complaint is teacher's unions. Unions take the brunt of the change.

And that is a direct attack on the Democratic Party. Charter schools can pay much less for teachers, so that covers a second complaint by conservatives, government spending. Hurting government spending and the Democratic Party is a "twofur."

A lot of conservatives and libertarians I have known hold it as gospel that private enterprise will always run with greater efficiency that any government. They believe that making schools run like a business that they will get better results and better students.

Two men, Albert Shanker and Ray Budde, conceived the idea in Minnesota back in 1974, long before the 90's era trade agreement and before any Neoliberal conspiracy would have conceived it.

Obama and McCain supported it in 2008.


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