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We Don’t Need No Education
27th January 2015MalloyProducer2 Comments
Kansas governor Sam Brownback has a simple plan to save money – cut education funding! But what will we do for the kiddies who need instruction? Why, send them to religious schools! Here’s a long excerpt from the Guardian:
Governor Brownback, in his state of the state address, said: “Kansas is the most pro-life state in America. And we are not going back.” Kansas is also $280m short on due payments for this fiscal year, following an experiment with historic tax cuts now in its fourth year. The projected shortfall for next year is nearly $650m. On this point, too, Brownback is not going back: “We will continue our march to zero income taxes.” Indeed, while his administration recently called for slowing deep tax cuts, lofty supply-side goals remain.
In recent years, attempts in Kansas to erode both the funding of public schools and the separation of church and state within them have reached fever pitch. Last March, partially settling a historic, 15-year, multiple-lawsuit battle pitting Kansas schools against Congress, the state supreme court set a national precedent by ruling with Gannon v Kansas that the state inequitably funds public education – the “suitable provision” for which the state constitution has required since a 1960s amendment. Last month, a district court ruling all but sealed the deal.
In 2013, not long after successfully restoring rigorous science standards infamously undone by school board creationists during the previous decade, Kansas quietly became the fifth state, following Texas, Florida, Arkansas and Oklahoma, to pass controversial civics education legislation creating what some view as legal wiggle room for teaching US history with a religious slant.
While de-funding and de-secularizing both amount to aggression toward the public school as we know it, the finance issue was more pressing and the stuff of national news. School districts in other states have brought similar lawsuits summoning constitutional language to demand increased funding and awaited the Kansas ruling as a legal guidepost. Once the state court sided with schools, the nation had an example – but Kansas still had the governor who helped create its current budget mess.
The ruling came down in an election year, just as economists were pronouncing Brownback’s experiment a failure, and the Democratic underdog gave Brownback a run for his money – but it was big money. Brownback is famously backed by the Koch brothers, the Wichita-based billionaires. Republicans in the statehouse and the general populace crossed lines to remove Brownback, but he managed a win by a margin not much larger than the number of voters thwarted at the polls by new voter-ID laws.
What to do, then, for the re-elected executive administration, ordered by the judicial branch to increase education spending but facing revenue shortfalls created by tax cuts?
With a state budget plan outlined last week, Brownback aims to preserve his existing income tax slashes that drastically lowered top rates and made nearly 200,000 business owners exempt, and to triple the state cigarette tax from 79 cents to $2.29 per pack. Smoking rates being far higher among the poor, it’s a move difficult to reconcile with Brownback’s statement that society does best “when our hearts are tender to what God is tender to – the poor, the voiceless, the powerless.”
For a more sustainable solution to the education funding problem, Brownback has called repeatedly for the legislature to rewrite the state’s school-finance formula altogether.
While pundits are busy evaluating such games of economic chess, it might be useful to examine the seat from which Brownback decides his next move: that ancient place where the religious and the greedy mingle. Today, the religious right and wealthy free-marketeers both long to privatize a system that educates 50 million students, but for different reasons. One wants to make 50 million Christians; the other, 50 million paying customers.
Rob Boston, communications director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, first noticed the contemporary allegiance between extreme capitalists and religious zealots years ago while lurking at religious right conferences. The unholy union, he told me by phone from his Washington office, begins with the money holders.
“They look at the shock troops of the religious right, and they think, ‘How can we tap into that power? How can we get them to endorse our agenda of privatization?” Boston theorized. In matters of public education, which the religious right finds distasteful along moral lines, “they’re already more than halfway there.”
Read the rest – it’s well worth your time, if for no other reason than as a cautionary tale of what may come during a Republican Revolution.
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Hi ralps. Hello Everyone.
When religious right felt betrayed because faithful Jimmy Carter followed JFK's lead in honoring Establishment Clause, they turned to monied Repubs & African tyrants (like Falwell's blood mines).
Reagan era's also the period when they turned their sights to public education. The bogus 'creation science' crowd, after a decade or so failing to buck the Constitution and infest schools, needed a new tactic - in comes vouchers and charters. The latter brought stray deep pockets back.
And now in control of Congress are the Dominionists & other theocrats....
BTW - love the fur balls. 
