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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Schools Matter: Bill Haslam's School Choice

Schools Matter: Bill Haslam's School Choice:

Bill Haslam's School Choice

Having bought his way into the Tennessee Governor's Office with the reputation as a kinder and gentler sort of oligarch, Bill Haslam still has that much to prove at the state level. With his own treasure to spend from his Pilot Oil empire, Haslam has demonstrated so far is that he is at least more cautiously back room in his operations than the other right-wing gubernatorial puppets put in place by the Koch Boys last year to dismantle public institutions.

Haslam's more guarded approach to dragging government to the bathtub to drown it represents the most dangerous kind of post-partisan maneuvering, whereby both sides of the aisle of the corporate jet come together to toast the reign of corporate government and the further aggrandizement and continued control by the 1%ers.

In terms of education policy, the former neolib Gov. Bredesen handed off to Haslam a plan designed by the Gates, Broad, and Walton Foundations and approved by their boy, Duncan, to make Tennessee the poster state