What “National School Choice Week” Was Actually About
National School Choice Week? And the kickoff was a “party,” all flash, no substance?
That noise you heard was dry heaves.
5 Biggest Lies about the Right-Wing, Corporate-Backed War on Our Schools, Alternet, 1/23/2012
The lies? That school “choice” is “about racial justice and equal opportunity,” that the aim is to make public schools “stronger,” that it supports teachers and their work, that it’s about parents getting what “they want,” and that the privatization movement is bipartisan and secular. If you’ve been paying attention to NOLA schools, you’ve seen these lies in action.
But ALEC isn’t the only right-wing supporter of School Choice Week. Conservative organizations like the Goldwater Institute, New Jersey Tea Party Caucus, Heritage Foundation, Alliance for
