The Baffler | LoC
Then there are the growing ranks of the plutocrats—such as Charles Koch and the DeVos family—who have set their sights on getting rid of public education altogether, convinced that public schools produce too many young leftists, that market alternatives are always better, and that religious education is the best of all. While Betsy DeVos et al. pitch their crusade against “government schools” as fresh and innovative–school vouchers, those musty relics of Southern efforts to get around school integration have been rebranded as education savings accounts—the privatized future they’re peddling looks like what Americans rejected in the 1800s.