There has never been a bigger hoax than the claim that Democrats and progressives support school choice.
School choice has always been the rallying cry of segregationists and the rightwing of the Republican party.
The latest evidence comes from Nevada, where the Republican party has promised to create more charter schools and expand the voucher program if they win control of the Governorship and the Legislature. They warn that Democrats will curtail privatization (aka, “school choice”).
Of course, promoters of school choice go out of their way to pretend to be “reformers” and Democrats. That is why there is an organization of hedge fund managers called “Democrats for Education Reform,” when their goals are exactly the same as Betsy DeVos and ALEC.
School choice was born as the rallying cry of southern segregationists in the wake of the Brown decision. For many years, its advocates kept a low profile because the public understood that school choice=segregation.
You must always remember that “reformers” are privatizers, and they want to “re-form” the public schools into privately controlled market-based entities, whose books are closed to the public and whose governing board is self-selected, not elected.
If you live in Nevada, please vote.
Every vote counts.
If you don’t vote, you will see an unprecedented attack on your community’s public schools and an explosion of privatization, with your tax dollars going to privately managed charters and religious schools.
With ALL that gambling, pimps, and prostitutes in Las Vegas, you would think that Nevada would be able to afford funding public schools. Oh wait … the GOP are the pimps..enuf said.
Charles,
This blog does not repost articles from rightwing, anti-public school organizations.
You have posted your pro-choice views here hundreds of times. Unless you have something new to say, don’t waste your time.
This blog supports public schools as a public good. We understand you don’t. You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to restate it hundreds of times.
Wrong blog for your attacks on public schools.
Charles,
I spent 20 years as a conservative. I know their arguments better than they do. I admitted I was wrong. I will not use this blog to repeat their theories, speculation, and lies. Everything they advocate has failed. They pay people to write and post their blogs. This blog supports public schools, not privatization. Go to their websites to peddle the pro-school choice garbage. I am old enough to remember when school choice was a code term for segregation, nothing else.
thank you; well said
You should know, that I support public schools. Fairfax County VA has some of the finest public schools in the USA.
I do not always agree with the current SecEd. I realize that you normally do not re-post from conservative institutions, but I think you will make an exception in this case.
The Secretary is wrong,wrong, wrong on this topic. see
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2018/10/17/betsy-devos-puts-protecting-for-profit-schools-ahead-of-students/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=66774595
Brookings is midddle of the road, not hard right like Heritage and Cato.