Schooling in the Ownership Society: Baton Rouge billionaire Grigsby wants to take the "public" out of education

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Baton Rouge billionaire Grigsby wants to take the "public" out of education:

Baton Rouge billionaire Grigsby wants to take the "public" out of education

by Mike Klonsky

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Right-wing Baton Rouge businessman Lane Grigsby has decided that public education is the "root cause" of all the state's problems -- even "the traffic that strangles the interstate around Baton Rouge during the weekday commute."

So while he opposes "throwing any more money" into public education, he's created his own PAC so he can put millions of tax-free dollars behind conservative, anti-union candidates for the state school board.

He says he's focused on injecting "free-market principles" into what was once a "state monopoly" over public education.

Grigsby refers to his favored candidates for the school board as "progressives,"