A Wolf At The Schoolhouse Door begs the question...just who or what is the 'wolf?' In some ways that's a complicated question in and of itself. Why? Well, because there are actually many actors portraying the 'wolf' and for a variety of reasons.
Let's start here. The goal of the 'wolf' (wolves) is to change the face of public education in America. The end game is to privatize the system. As I said the reasons are many. More on that in the days to come.
Back to the question of who is the 'wolf?' The wolf has many faces; conserative leaning groups; ALEC, thinks tanks (Heritage, Cato and others), and a new and vocal proliferation of groups heavily funded by the likes of the Koch Brothers and none other than the former Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. In some ways this all got going 75 years ago by a leading economist of the day, Milton Friedman.
Yes, Friedman, in the 1950's argued that the free market ought to be the one to deliver the system of public education. These are individuals who make no secret that they want funds to move away from public education, as we know it, to a whole menu of other types of education institutions.
Thanks,
Dick
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