The ugly truth about “school choice”
The Koch brothers want you to think the movement's about racial justice and empowering parents. They're lying
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This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
National School Choice Week, a pet project of big corporations and conservative billionaires like the Koch brothers, kicked off Monday with celebratory forums throughout the country. Billing itself as a social justice movement committed to “ensuring effective education options for every child,” “school choice” has actually become a deeply divisive wedge issue for the right. But the folks at School Choice Week would prefer that you didn’t know that.
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