The GOP wants to take over all public school boards. CRT and mask mandates are a pretext, which they use to manipulate low information people to help them. This has been a long term GOP goal. They want to take over public education. So they can kill it. 1/
This is a fantastic piece by @petemont for @RightWingWatch: “The right wing political machine is out to take over school boards by fanning fears…” 2/ rightwingwatch.org/post/the-right…
This is a fantastic piece by @DianeRavitch for her blog. “Beware the Phony Parent Astroturf Groups in Your State!…” 3/ dianeravitch.net/2021/06/14/bew…
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5/ This is the Council for National Policy, a powerful umbrella organization for many of the influential right-wing groups. They wanted Trump to eliminate the Department of Education. washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
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7/ The “Koch network's tactics include:
•Supporting the seating of state legislators who intentionally defund public education;
•Destabilizing state funding in schools to promote policies that divert funds away from traditional public schools… commondreams.org/news/2021/08/1…
•Supporting the seating of state legislators who intentionally defund public education;
•Destabilizing state funding in schools to promote policies that divert funds away from traditional public schools… commondreams.org/news/2021/08/1…
8/ … to charter schools, private schools, and online education under the guise of ‘school choice”.
9/ Both Morton Blackwell (founder of the Leadership Institute) and @CharlieKirk11 (TPUSA) are recent members of the Council for National Policy. So are Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, KellyAnne Conway, etc. @anelsona has written a book about the CNP: #ShadowNetwork.
https://twitter.com/anelsona/status/1433783642434723841
10/ This plus a dollop of racism and a desire to privatize for profit.
https://twitter.com/dixiescott/status/1433983749893627904
11/ Charlie Kirk has a public school hit list.
https://twitter.com/bluebirdrave/status/1432770797274157063
13/ Someone told me post 11 is missing. Here’s a screenshot.
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.@threadreaderapp Plz unroll
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