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eSchool News
March 14, 2006
Nora Carr
There's a well-financed effort underway in states around the country to pass legislation that would overhaul school funding. The so-called "65-percent solution" aims to have 65 cents of every school dollar spent directly in the classroom. But as many online news sites and education blogs have exposed, this "solution" is no more than a slick campaign to advance a partisan political agenda during an election year...
Although the group's fundraising web site, First Class Education, says the campaign is a grassroots school funding initiative, an internal memo shows otherwise.
Chaired by voucher proponent and Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, the effort is clearly focused on unseating Democratic governors or challengers in key states such as Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, and Oklahoma.
However, the campaign has several "tangential political advantages," according to organizers.
Outlined in cynical detail, these goals include "splitting the education union" by pitting "administrators and teachers at odds with each other," "predisposing" targeted voters to support "voucher and charter school proposals," establishing "the debate on taxes" by highlighting public education's "inefficiencies," and providing Republicans with "greater credibility on public-education issues."
Also see:
Public School Privatizaton and Commercialization Read the memo (400k PDF) School Administrators: The 65 Percent Rule — Who’s behind it?
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