Please trust me - there is a must-read piece
at Alternet this morning. It is by Rachel Tabachnick, and is titled The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education The piece is very timely, as Betsy DeVos is running a conference in DC on Monday which will feature the likes of the governors of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Michelle Rhee.
If you do not know, the DeVos family money comes largely from Amway. Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe fame is connected - Betsy is his sister. And they are very much Christian Dominionists, wanting to destroy not only public education, but if given the chance religious freedom as well.
First, the general approach - beyond that of religion - can be seen in this paragraph:
The conservative policy institutes founded beginning in the 1970s get hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy families and foundations to develop and promote free market fundamentalism. More specifically, their goals include privatizing social security, reducing government regulations, thwarting environmental policy, dismantling unions -- and eliminating public schools.
There is more - much more.