Clint Smith writes in The Atlantic that the underlying cause of educational inequality is unequal funding of children who are poor. Instead of getting more funding and smaller classes, their schools are systematically underfunded as compared to the schools attended by the wealthiest children.
The GOP tax plan will worsen this inequality. It creates pathways to enrich rich families and take from the public schools that serve the neediest children.
It is a reverse Robin Hood plan: steal from the poor, give to the rich.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And in other headline news today: Wild bear shits in the woods!
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Poverty will continue to grow under this tax scam as complicit politicians create systems to drain public budgets. LBJ understood how devastating poverty is, and he did not blame the poor for their plight. He gave poor schools extra funding to assist poor students. Today, many of the politicians come from a wealthy family that often disdains the poor so they have little interest in helping them. Privatization of prisons and education both promote opportunities for the wealthy to exploit the poor as fewer politicians support the common good. These out of touch so-called representatives got to go.
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It’s Digital Learning Day.
That’s where a bunch of academics and product vendors funded and promoted by the tech industry sell product to public schools.
https://all4ed.org/webinar-event/digital-learning-day-2018-webinar/
It’s fine for schools to buy product from vendors- just be clear that’s what you’re doing.
This is SALES. Not science.
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The ed reform “movement” completely ignores public schools and public school families.
Unless they’re selling us ed tech product. Then all of a sudden we’re a vitally important market.
Let the buyer beware.
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