DeVos, Obama, Booker, Trump All Enemies Of Public Education
<https://popularresistance.org/category/educate/> Educate!
<https://popularresistance.org/tag/barack-obama/> Barack Obama,
<https://popularresistance.org/tag/donald-trump/> Donald Trump,
<https://popularresistance.org/tag/education/> Education,
<https://popularresistance.org/tag/public-education/> Public Education
By Glen Ford,
<http://blackagendareport.com/devos_obama_booker_trump_villains>
www.blackagendareport.com
February 9th, 2017
Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com
Betsy DeVos barely won confirmation as the next secretary of education, so
dreadful is the performance of the charter schools she promotes in Michigan.
But the educational atrocities of the DeVos schools are inseparable from the
larger war against public education. Barack Obama doubled charter school
enrollment, and Cory Booker, who hopes to be president, is a fanatical
advocate of private school vouchers. Trump and Devos arent the only
villains.
Senate hearings exposed the slimy underbelly of the charter privatization
project and the billionaires of both parties that have guided and sustained
it.
Sometimes, when ruling class competitors collide, the villainy of both
factions is made manifest. Donald Trump did the nations public schools a
great service by nominating Betsy DeVos, the awesomely loathsome billionaire
Amway heiress, for secretary of Education. In turning over that rock, Trump
exposed the raw corruption and venality at the core of the charter school
privatization juggernaut. Only an historic tie-breaking vote by Vice
President Mike Pence saved DeVos from rejection by the U.S. Senate. Two
Republicans abandoned their partys nominee, joining a solid bloc of
Democrats, including New Jerseys Cory Booker, a school privatizer that
crawled out of the same ideological sewer as DeVos and has long been her
comrade and ally. Booker
<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/booker_and_devos_served_togeth
er_now_he_voted_agai.html> defected from his soul mate in fear that the
DeVos stench might taint his own presidential ambitions.
The New York Times editorial board, a champion of charters,
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/opinion/betsy-devos-teaches-the-value-of
-ignorance.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&modul
e=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-
c-col-left-region&_r=0> bemoaned that DeVos appointment squanders an
opportunity to advance public education research, experimentation and
standards, to objectively compare traditional public school, charter school
and voucher models in search of better options for public school students
a devious way of saying that the Senate hearings exposed the slimy
underbelly of the charter privatization project and the billionaires of both
parties that have guided and sustained it.
Obama deployed the coercive powers of Race to the Top to force states to
increase the spread of charters schools.
The greatest privatizer of them all, the man who broke the back of public
education and more than doubled charter school enrollment through his Race
to the Top program, was
<http://www.grindtv.com/surf/former-president-obama-learns-how-to-kitesurf-w
ith-richard-branson-video/#oIA9AqEqctAfpj86.97> cavorting with Richard
Branson on the British billionaires private Caribbean island when Betsy
DeVos was on gruesome display at the Senate hearings. Obamacare will soon be
history, but the First Black Presidents most enduring domestic legacy was
to make charter schools the effective alternative to public education but
only in Black America, and to a much lesser degree, in Latino neighborhoods.
Beginning in 2010, Obama deployed the coercive powers of Race to the Top to
force states to increase the spread of charters schools or lose access to
$4.35 billion in additional federal funding. On Wall Street, its called
making a market. In his two terms in office, President Obama succeeded in
creating a privately-run network of schools that are both effectively
segregated and outside democratic processes of accountability.
His first secretary of education, Arne Duncan, famously said Katrina was the
best thing that ever happened for New Orleans education. The
federally-fueled charter storm has devoured much of the educational sphere
in Black and brown cities across the nation. Below is a list of the
<http://www.publiccharters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/enrollmentshare_we
b.pdf> top charter school jurisdictions, based on percentage of enrollment.
New Orleans, LA 93%
Detroit, MI 53
Flint, MI 47
Washington, DC 44
Kansas City, MO 41
Gary, IN 40
Philadelphia, PA 33
Hall County, GA 32
Victor Valley, CA 32
Indianpolis, IN 31
Grand Rapid, MI 31
Dayton, OH 30
San Anontio, TX 30
Cleveland, OH 30
These cities are the domestic mirrors of Obama and Bush foreign policies
the bombed out public educational infrastructures selectively targeted in
Black and brown America. Betsy DeVos depredations in Michigan, where the
largely for-profit charters she promotes score
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-michigan-school-experimen
t-232399> worse than traditional public schools on national tests, are like
the wedding party and hospital bombings that punctuate U.S. foreign wars:
although singular, horrific atrocities, they are part and parcel of the
larger aggression, the logical consequences of the war against public
education.
Booker became deeply entangled with the most right-wing corporate sugar
daddies (and mommas) of the private school vouchers movement.
Sen. Cory Booker is a mercenary in that war. He entered politics as an
advocate of public funding for private schools, two of which he operated in
Newark, New Jersey. While a first-term city councilman, Booker became deeply
entangled with the most right-wing corporate sugar daddies (and mommas) of
the private school vouchers movement actually, a billionaires club
encompassing many of the main funders of the Hard Right in the U.S. (See
<http://www.blackcommentator.com/poisoned_tree.html> Fruit of the Poisoned
Tree, The Black Commentator, April 5, 2002.) Bookers rise to national
prominence has been funded and promoted by these same right-wing networks,
to whom he remains loyal. From 2004 to 2008,
<https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/cory-booker-is-no-frie
nd-to-public-educaton/> Booker sat with Betsy DeVos on the board of the
Alliance for School Choice, a pro-charter and school vouchers outfit founded
by John Walton, one of the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune. Hakeem Jeffries, a
Black congressman from Brooklyn, is a protégé of Booker and fellow supporter
<http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-prospective-new-congr
essman-vows-explore-tax-breaks-jewish-parents-ease-foreclosure-woes-monitor-
stop-and-frisk-article-1.1103516> of tax credits for private schools. In the
wake of Obamas eight-year crusade on behalf of charters, much of the
Congressional Black Caucus is now amenable to various privatization schemes.
In their zeal to confront and delegitimize Donald Trump, the Democrats primp
and posture as if in genuine opposition to President Cheetos
governance-by-billionaires. But, charter school privatization, like U.S.
wars, is a project of both wings of the ruling class duopoly. When you scorn
DeVos, you must also curse Obama, and reject Booker or you are no better
than Trump.
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DeVos, Obama, Booker, Trump All Enemies Of Public Education
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<https://popularresistance.org/tag/barack-obama/> , Donald Trump
<https://popularresistance.org/tag/donald-trump/> , Education
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<https://popularresistance.org/tag/public-education/>
By Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com
<http://blackagendareport.com/devos_obama_booker_trump_villains>
February 9th, 2017
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Betsy DeVos barely won confirmation as the next secretary of education, so
dreadful is the performance of the charter schools she promotes in Michigan.
But the educational atrocities of the DeVos schools are inseparable from the
larger war against public education. Barack Obama doubled charter school
enrollment, and Cory Booker, who hopes to be president, is a fanatical
advocate of private school vouchers. Trump and Devos arent the only
villains.
Senate hearings exposed the slimy underbelly of the charter privatization
project and the billionaires of both parties that have guided and sustained
it.
Sometimes, when ruling class competitors collide, the villainy of both
factions is made manifest. Donald Trump did the nations public schools a
great service by nominating Betsy DeVos, the awesomely loathsome billionaire
Amway heiress, for secretary of Education. In turning over that rock, Trump
exposed the raw corruption and venality at the core of the charter school
privatization juggernaut. Only an historic tie-breaking vote by Vice
President Mike Pence saved DeVos from rejection by the U.S. Senate. Two
Republicans abandoned their partys nominee, joining a solid bloc of
Democrats, including New Jerseys Cory Booker, a school privatizer that
crawled out of the same ideological sewer as DeVos and has long been her
comrade and ally. Booker defected
<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/booker_and_devos_served_togeth
er_now_he_voted_agai.html> from his soul mate in fear that the DeVos stench
might taint his own presidential ambitions.
The New York Times editorial board, a champion of charters, bemoaned
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/opinion/betsy-devos-teaches-the-value-of
-ignorance.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&modul
e=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-
c-col-left-region&_r=0> that DeVos appointment squanders an opportunity
to advance public education research, experimentation and standards, to
objectively compare traditional public school, charter school and voucher
models in search of better options for public school students a devious
way of saying that the Senate hearings exposed the slimy underbelly of the
charter privatization project and the billionaires of both parties that have
guided and sustained it.
Obama deployed the coercive powers of Race to the Top to force states to
increase the spread of charters schools.
The greatest privatizer of them all, the man who broke the back of public
education and more than doubled charter school enrollment through his Race
to the Top program, was cavorting with Richard Branson
<http://www.grindtv.com/surf/former-president-obama-learns-how-to-kitesurf-w
ith-richard-branson-video/#oIA9AqEqctAfpj86.97> on the British
billionaires private Caribbean island when Betsy DeVos was on gruesome
display at the Senate hearings. Obamacare will soon be history, but the
First Black Presidents most enduring domestic legacy was to make charter
schools the effective alternative to public education but only in Black
America, and to a much lesser degree, in Latino neighborhoods. Beginning in
2010, Obama deployed the coercive powers of Race to the Top to force states
to increase the spread of charters schools or lose access to $4.35 billion
in additional federal funding. On Wall Street, its called making a
market. In his two terms in office, President Obama succeeded in creating a
privately-run network of schools that are both effectively segregated and
outside democratic processes of accountability.
His first secretary of education, Arne Duncan, famously said Katrina was the
best thing that ever happened for New Orleans education. The
federally-fueled charter storm has devoured much of the educational sphere
in Black and brown cities across the nation. Below is a list of the top
charter school jurisdictions
<http://www.publiccharters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/enrollmentshare_we
b.pdf> , based on percentage of enrollment.
New Orleans, LA 93%
Detroit, MI 53
Flint, MI 47
Washington, DC 44
Kansas City, MO 41
Gary, IN 40
Philadelphia, PA 33
Hall County, GA 32
Victor Valley, CA 32
Indianpolis, IN 31
Grand Rapid, MI 31
Dayton, OH 30
San Anontio, TX 30
Cleveland, OH 30
These cities are the domestic mirrors of Obama and Bush foreign policies
the bombed out public educational infrastructures selectively targeted in
Black and brown America. Betsy DeVos depredations in Michigan, where the
largely for-profit charters she promotes score worse than traditional public
schools
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-michigan-school-experimen
t-232399> on national tests, are like the wedding party and hospital
bombings that punctuate U.S. foreign wars: although singular, horrific
atrocities, they are part and parcel of the larger aggression, the logical
consequences of the war against public education.
Booker became deeply entangled with the most right-wing corporate sugar
daddies (and mommas) of the private school vouchers movement.
Sen. Cory Booker is a mercenary in that war. He entered politics as an
advocate of public funding for private schools, two of which he operated in
Newark, New Jersey. While a first-term city councilman, Booker became deeply
entangled with the most right-wing corporate sugar daddies (and mommas) of
the private school vouchers movement actually, a billionaires club
encompassing many of the main funders of the Hard Right in the U.S. (See
Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
<http://www.blackcommentator.com/poisoned_tree.html> , The Black
Commentator, April 5, 2002.) Bookers rise to national prominence has been
funded and promoted by these same right-wing networks, to whom he remains
loyal. From 2004 to 2008, Booker sat with Betsy DeVos
<https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/cory-booker-is-no-frie
nd-to-public-educaton/> on the board of the Alliance for School Choice, a
pro-charter and school vouchers outfit founded by John Walton, one of the
heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune. Hakeem Jeffries, a Black congressman from
Brooklyn, is a protégé of Booker and fellow supporter of tax credits for
private schools
<http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-prospective-new-congr
essman-vows-explore-tax-breaks-jewish-parents-ease-foreclosure-woes-monitor-
stop-and-frisk-article-1.1103516> . In the wake of Obamas eight-year
crusade on behalf of charters, much of the Congressional Black Caucus is now
amenable to various privatization schemes.
In their zeal to confront and delegitimize Donald Trump, the Democrats primp
and posture as if in genuine opposition to President Cheetos
governance-by-billionaires. But, charter school privatization, like U.S.
wars, is a project of both wings of the ruling class duopoly. When you scorn
DeVos, you must also curse Obama, and reject Booker or you are no better
than Trump.
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