is the attempt by right-wing plutocrats to destroy America’s system of free public education, the same way that the real crisis in Social Security is the right wing’s attempt to end it.
Diane Ravitch.net is a great place to go if you want to know about the charter school/privatization scam, and btw both our president and our governor are among the most complicit pitchmen.
Ravitch is, of course, one of the country’s leading education scholars. You know, someone who actually knows something about what she’s talking about, if that’s not too tautological for you. In other words, a true rarity in our public discourse.
Ravitch has been uncompromising about insisting that corporate titans stick to selling stuff and keep their noses out of education policy about which they are either under-informed, or view simply as a potential means of vast self-enrichment, taxpayer-funded of course.
Talk about takers!