The Right Wing's Dirty War Against History and Education laprogressive.com/education-refo… The politics of disappearance at work currently in the U.S. takes place under the cover of state legislative policies that erase the histories of marginalized groups and other displaced populations
Public Education, 'School Choice' Debate: Defeat of a School Voucher Program Reveals the Truth laprogressive.com/education-refo… “Vouchers take money out of the budget [meant] for public schools and route it to various recipients that include private schools and homeschooling businesses”
US #Fascism Spreads Under Guise of “Patriotic Education” laprogressive.com/education-refo…
"the far right GOP has deemed #education to be the most powerful tool for creating a public that is neither informed nor willing to struggle to keep a #democracy alive"
1/ #Iowa parents deserve real rights bleedingheartland.com/2023/04/14/iow…"looking closely at the legislation passed here in Iowa and the U.S. House of Representatives, these so-called parental rights bills are far from what most families want or need for their #children and their #schools."
2/ ". Groups like Moms For America, Parents Defending Education, Americans for Prosperity, Turning Point USA, Advancing American Freedom, and The Heritage Foundation are funding candidates for school board, governor, and Congress."
3/ "private education is a for-profit business...a lot of money to be made if public schools fail. Under the guise of parents’ choice, voucher schemes help those who already have the means to pay for private schooling, leaving behind those in the middle and at the bottom."
4/ "parents' rights bills coming from the governor, state legislature and Congress are not designed to solve any real problem. On the contrary: they create more problems by discriminating against LGBTQ children and children of color, violating the 1st Amendment and federal laws"
5/ Learn "how #ALEC bills would privatize public education, crush teacher's unions, and push American universities to the right'"
Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers alecexposed.org/wiki/Privatizi… #Teachers #HigherEd #education #unions
Public Education as a Domestic Machinery of Indoctrination and Disposability in the Age of Fascist Politics laprogressive.com/education-refo… "The ugly grasp of #fascist politics, #culture, and #education has moved from the margins to the center of American life and power".
Why Do Republicans Want to Defund Our Libraries? laprogressive.com/education-refo… succinctly encompassing a free-market agenda to destroy public funding of institutions that enlighten and educate, all under the disingenuous banner of “protecting children.”
#Florida school bans Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem after parental complaint politi.co/3MzTixY the book was removed from circulation from the school after one parent complained in March that it “is not educational and have indirectly [sic] hate messages.” #education
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Far-right 'Moms for Liberty' listed as a hate group for first time rawstory.com/bank/moms-for-… “[The movement] is primarily aimed at not wanting to include our hard history, topics of racism, and a very strong push against teaching anything having to do with LGBTQ topics in schools
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