Reply #24: Blast from the Past right here on DU 2003 [View All]

[Evasporque]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/09/04_school.html

That's me kids.

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Neoconservative values promote privatization of public services under the assumption that private enterprise can better manage services in an environment of free-enterprise and competition. Riding along with privatization is the promotion of Christian religious morality and ethics through public policy. The Bush administration has made significant efforts to set the stage for the privatization of many public services, including education, through programs like "No Child Left Behind" and the promotion of "school choice vouchers." The result is that public schools will ultimately be reduced to remedial education services by shifting resources to private religious schools and eroding the funding to public schools.

The methodology to which the neoconservatives will achieve the goal is subtle, but the result is extremely harsh. It involves the decline of public school infrastructure through funding cuts and tax freezes. By cutting the funding and freezing taxes at the local and state level (as is being done with property taxes in Wisconsin) neocons are slowly strangling education until privatization is the only option left.

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