“School Choice Week” is coming to Kansas and the rest of the country the last week of January. During that time, Koch-funded entities will trot kids donned in yellow scarves up to the Capitol in a well-funded and well-orchestrated event, but those same entities refuse every effort to infuse voucher...
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WaPo Analysis on Koch Efforts to Remake K-12 Ed
The Koch brothers trying to meddle in public education is not new. They’ve been doing it through funding of organizations like ALEC for years. We also sounded the alarm when we learned of Chase and Annie Koch opening a private school in Wichita, also discussed in this article. We have...
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Last week we shared a story about how the Kochs are attacking public education. Our experience shows us that the “education reform” the Kochs advocate has a lot more to do with minimizing the funding of public education than with actually helping students succeed. From the Washington Post, “Leaders of...
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The Kochs are stepping up their game and looking to further attack public education. Please remember the primary goal of the Koch’s efforts is eliminating taxes, and publicly funded education is the biggest obstacle to that goal. From the Washington Post: “Leaders of the network dreamed of disrupting the status...
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