• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    716 days ago

    Schools are being transformed from a public service into a private profit center.

    This isn’t just a “the right ruins everything” problem. It’s happening in Washington State and New York and DC as quickly as anywhere else.

    Look up Obama backed Michelle Rhee Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. She fired loads of teachers, imposed an onorous standardized testing regime, and then committed a ton of fraud to fake improvement in classes that had been wrecked by her tenure.

    Hugely hyped by the Gates Foundation, which has been angling to privatized education for over a decade. Her regime was then replicated all across the Gulf Coast as Republicans latched on to her originally “liberal” ideas of school reform.