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Panich52

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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 04:23 PM Jan 2015

National School Choice Week: PR for Privatizers

This month, a roomful of school children were herded into a congressional meeting room and made to sit through an hour and a half of speeches by House Speaker John Boehner, Sens. Ted Cruz and Tim Scott, and other conservative members of Congress in honor of National School Choice Week. Described by its organizers as an "independent public awareness campaign," National School Choice Week is really a PR campaign that uses the moral mantle of children to distract attention from the fact that its sponsors include many anti-public education, anti-union, anti-government ideologues.

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