Why Public Schools are on the GOP's Hit List..

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13. GOP wants all those tasty public school tax dollars to come to them through privatization.

There's a huge effort in FL right now to take over school boards and run out good teachers, so billionaire corporate charter schools can move in and cash in. Meanwhile Gov. DeSatan is letting Hillsdale College dictate the civics curriculum to promote right-wing propaganda. As Hartmann states below:

"... the United States spends almost a trillion dollars a year on primary school education, an expense category just below healthcare and even more than the Pentagon budget: there are massive profits to be made if privatized entities can skim even a few percent off the top.

Those profits, in turn, can be used — with the Supreme Court’s blessing — to legally bribe elected officials to further gut public schools and transfer even more of our tax dollars to private schools and their stockholders.

This pursuit of America’s education dollars is nothing new. The first American president to put an anti-public-schools crusader in charge of the Education Department was Ronald Reagan."