Tom Ultican is an expert on the “Destroy Public Education” movement. Here he explores the oligarch money behind The City Fund and the cities it has targeted for privatization of their public schools.:" Organizations like Public School Allies regularly come in and monetarily swamp any political opposition. That is not democracy.The giant quantities of money concentrated in such few hands are destroying democracy. How is a citizen of an impoverished neighborhood who is opposed to having her public schools privatized going to politically compete with oligarchs from San Francisco, or Seattle? Modern “school choice” ideology promoted by many white billionaires is little different from the strategies of southern segregationist in the 1950s and 60s. It still increases segregation and creates an “inherently unequal”and racist education system…"
At dianeravitch.net
