Schooling in the Ownership Society: Public schools shouldn't depend on handouts from billionaires

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Public schools shouldn't depend on handouts from billionaires:

Public schools shouldn't depend on handouts from billionaires

by Mike Klonsky

From the New York Times:

Although praiseworthy as a matter of personal philanthropy, the donation by the mayor and the others, whose names were not disclosed, is highly distressing as a matter of public policy. It is disgraceful that essential components of our public education system now depend on the charitable impulses of wealthy citizens.

A number of judges have begun to respond to the devastation in state education financing: in May, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered Gov. Chris Christie and the Legislature to reinstate $500