"Max Brantley*editor of the Arkansas Times) confronts the depredations of the powerful Walton family against the public secto, summarizing the Waltons' current efforts to take over the Little Rock school district, so they can eliminate public schools and replace them with charters. Anyone who who thinks that charter schools are “progressive” should visit Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, or any other red state where the billionaires are doing their best to destroy public education."