Has any Democrat promised or tried to take public ed policy away from 1%? [View all]

[yurbud]

My wife and I are both educators, and she is a K-12 teacher, so we know pretty intimately the policies the 1% are forcing on our public schools: narrowed curriculum to fit the test (and the 1% sell the texts, software, and tests), then using those test results as an excuse to close schools, and replace them with scam charter schools that they also profit from.

All the while the 1% are demanding nothing of the sort from the schools they send their children to.

Most public school teachers want to do a good job but their hands are tied by top-down curriculum, and politicians who bitch about schools but won't mandate smaller classes or more social services, which might require them to raise taxes on their 1% patrons.

Obama is clearly behind this policy, and I haven't read anything from anyone in the Senate who has called this "education reform" what it really is an attempt to make education a cash cow for contractors who will make generous kickbacks to those who give them the contracts.

Who is opposing this in a position of power?

We have our kid in private school to avoid the overcrowded classes, mindless drills for test, and PUBLIC announcement of individual test scores, but we can barely afford it. Keeping her there will probably preclude saving for her college or us ever buying our own home.

The candidate who bluntly calls this the corrupt, crony serving policy it is and pledges to end it will get my support, as well as most teachers and a lot of parents across the political spectrum who are sick of this.