Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform | Dissident Voice

Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform | Dissident Voice

Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform

by Robert D. Skeels

Like special interests, our constituents deserve some consideration also.
– Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte (Los Angeles Unified School District Board — LAUSD).

At least someone was thinking of parents and community before corporations and privatizers at LAUSD.
If we ever needed more insight into just how manipulative and insidious Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is as an agent of the corporate and neoliberal agenda, they’ve published a white paper discussing how they managed to railroad the anti-community, anti-teacher, pro-corporate SB-191 through the Colorado Legislature. The bill, which further disenfranchised communities in favor of corporate “ed-reformers,” and stripped Colorado teachers of nearly any protections whatsoever is a prime example of how it isn’t only teabagging darlings like Florida’s Rick Scott and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker that want to destroy public education and bust all unions.
Using a systematic methodology of guile, deception, and select co-opting of various other entities, DFER politicians were able to pass a pernicious bill that all but turns the teaching profession into a career path akin to working as a fast food fry cook. Of course, that’s how the well heeled hedge fund managers that founded DFER