An article in the recent issue of Education Week suggests that there is support for vouchers among Democrats at the state and local level.
The article cites Newark Mayor Cory Booker, but he is an outlier.
It also quotes the head of a group called the American Federation for Children. This group attracts support for vouchers from very wealthy Republicans. It is headed by Betsy DeVos, a very conservative Republican advocate for vouchers and privatization. Last year, AFS honored Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Michelle Rhee. The AFS might is hardly a barometer of opinion in the Democratic party.
The article is indicative of the fact that groups on the right are giving money to Democratic candidates in order to buy off opposition to their privatization campaign.
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Good Morning — I am researching Jill Stein of the Green Party for President. Where does she stand on education and the do called reform movemt ?
Marge
Stein seems clued in to the reality of rheeform, and her education views are pretty closely aligned with most of what is expressed on this blog.
I don’t know. Read her website.
It’s been done in Illinois.
Chicagoan and Republican billionaire Bruce Rauner brought Jonah Edelman and Stand for Children to Illinois, to support candidates that Dem. House Speaker Michael Madigan wanted in.
When 6 of the Democratic candidates for state legislature did win, the Speaker created an Education Reform Committee and asked Edelman who he wanted to sit on it. ALEC-inspired IL SB7 was the result.
Edelman said all this himself. Google the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival video of the workshop he and billionaire Jim Crowne led.
In Wisconsin the pro-voucher “Democrats” were beaten badly in the recent primary election (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/19/1121553/-WI-State-Legislature-School-Profitizers-Fail-to-Buy-Dem-Primaries). It can be done.
The dailykos post doesn’t mention that DFER supported essentially the same slate as the GOP backed American Federation for Children: http://www.dfer.org/blog/2012/05/will_milwaukee.php
Why of course. That’s because Republicans have actively infiltrated the Democratic Party to the point where it is virtually indistinguishable from the Republican Party to yore, at least before the Tea Party bunch hijacked it.
DFER spokesman, Joe Williams is playing coy on vouchers, claiming that this powerful group of hedge-fund Democrats has “no official position” on vouchers. Williams himself has often voiced his support for vouchers and during the ’08 campaign even planted articles in the press falsely claiming Obama supported vouchers. DFER spreads money around generously to support Dem politicians like Corey Booker, who dare come out openly for vouchers.