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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts) Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:49 PM Apr 2018

Group Beloved by Betsy Devos and Koch Brothers Launches Counter-Attack Against Teacher Rebellion

From the article:

A right-wing coalition, which has received funding from both the Koch Brothers and the billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is launching an aggressive attack on the tens of thousands of teachers and education supporters who have been demanding increased school funding and teacher salaries in recent weeks.
As the Guardian reports, the State Policy Network (SPN) is distributing a guide to anti-labor activists across the nation, with the aim of helping them to discredit the protests that teachers have been organizing in Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arizona.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/12/group-beloved-betsy-devos-and-koch-brothers-launches-counter-attack-against-teacher?utm_term=

These State policy Networks exist in 41 states, including the Illinois Policy Network in my state. All part of the effort by the 1% to frame the narrative on every issue.

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Group Beloved by Betsy Devos and Koch Brothers Launches Counter-Attack Against Teacher Rebellion (Original Post) guillaumeb Apr 2018 OP

Because.. Crutchez_CuiBono Apr 2018 #1

And the 1% hates unions because they allow workers to have power. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #2

It worked here in WI. Buy the time they were done teachers were being refered to as AJT Apr 2018 #3

Amazing that they can refer to teachers in that way. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #4

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

1. Because..

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:51 PM

Apr 2018

Happy teachers and smart kids...are a bad thing. The Devos Family has A LOT of gop in their pocket.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. And the 1% hates unions because they allow workers to have power.

Reply to Crutchez_CuiBono (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:52 PM

Apr 2018

Smart kids are a threat to the GOP. Witness the gun debate and what is happening.

AJT

(5,240 posts)

3. It worked here in WI. Buy the time they were done teachers were being refered to as

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:56 PM

Apr 2018

"glorified babysitters" and public schools as "government schools". They know how to whip up hate.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

4. Amazing that they can refer to teachers in that way.

Reply to AJT (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:51 PM

Apr 2018

How did they view their own school experiences?

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