A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling
from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:
A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling
June 21, 2014
Deep in the heart of Texas, still another billionaire is scheming to make public education a rewarding business investment opportunity.
By Sam Pizzigati
Billionaires have opinions. In a democracy, billionaires have the right to voice these opinions, just like everyone else.
But billionaires dont just have opinions. They have immense fortunes and, thanks to these fortunes, enough power to impose their opinions on the rest us.
Need we worry about these impositions? We sure should. Just one example: Billionaire political might has come to constitute a clear and present danger to the single most bedrock institution of our democracy: public education. This danger, as of last week, now stands in starkest relief deep in the heart of Texas.
This past Thursday, the Dallas local school board appointed a 15-member home-rule commission designed to end real home rule of the citys schools and open the door to education reforms that warm the hearts of billionaires. ............(more)
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