Now you're talking - by Tom Sullivan

[Sam1]

"Folks, they want to destroy public education," the state Senate minority leader told a room full of supporters last year. He said it as though he had just figured it out.

Since the Republican sweep in 2010, Democrats have spent so much time in state capitols defending against one frontal assault after another coming from yards away. They tend not to notice troop movements on the fringes of the political battlefield. Is The Village any different?

Outside the bubbles, it's been clear for years that destroying public education is where charters, vouchers, and online schools are taking us under the guise of helping the disadvantaged. But one rarely sees it put so bluntly as this week. The WaPo's Valerie Strauss quotes the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce's vice president of public policy and economic development:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/now-youre-talking-by-bloggersrus.html

[House of Roberts]

1. Here's the key right here.

Why should the 1% pay to educate American children when other nations will pay to educate theirs for us?

When an educated American workforce was essential to prosper, corporations didn't mind helping public schools. Now they want unlimited legal immigration so they can suck up all the talent worldwide as cheap as they can get it. Bill Gates is as big an offender at this as any one of them.

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2. K&R....