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The word “Universal” here is shorthand for the idea that Free Public Education must be co-extensive with the class of people who are learning to function as citizens in a democratic society. When you really think about it, that may be an example of Lifelong Learning, but that doesn't conflict with the fact that some lessons are more basic than others. You'll get no argument from me about the value of diversity, at least, in the play of ideas that we contemplate. But the survival of a society or a species depends on realizing that reality will sort out the People and the Creatures who don't take fact-finding seriously.
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The principle of Universal Free Public Education is fundamental to our democracy. I gather that provisions for charter schools have long been in place, and there need be no problem with that in principle, but it becomes a problem when charter schools are used to undermine the right to Universal Free Public Education. Parochial, pay, and private schools violate that principle.
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The principle of Universal Free Public Education is fundamental to the working of our democracy. Provisions for charter schools have long been in place, and there need be no problem with that in principle, but it becomes a problem when charter schools are used to undermine the right to Universal Free Public Education. Parochial, pay, and private schools violate that principle.
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What I think from reading the comments is that many people get it, the same caring, hard-working, and wise people who have always gotten it. But let's face it — $$$ for the sake of making more $$$ speaks far louder in the U.S. today than all the caring, hard work, and wisdom put together. You are talking to people who just don't care, who simply laugh out their asses at the sorts of saps who would actually spend their evenings grading papers and preparing lesson plans instead of working their portfolios on e*trade™. Wake up and smell the TEA, you will have to strike early, strike often, and strike nationwide. You are going to have to throw a Corporate Armada full of money-grubbing privateers out of your schools while you still have a profession left to call your own. That's what I think.
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That is a common confusion. It comes from viewing everything from education to environment to healthcare to the parks and zoos as market commodities rather than common resources. People have been by misled by certain brands of bean-counter thinking to regard education as a private good, something you buy so you and yours can get ahead of them and theirs in life. But that is not how the very wise founders of our democracy saw it. They knew that universal free public education was essential to making our novel form of democracy succeed where all previous and even many later attempts failed.  You can't have one without the other.
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Who is screwing who is always a good question in politics. Where does the fault rest? Does it rest with the members of the local school board who decide where to spend the funds they receive? Does it rest with the Governor and Legislature who decide how they will act on the priorities that the People of Michigan express as their deepest concerns and highest values?
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As long as we have a democratic government we have a way of holding elected officials accountable. We do not have that power over the appointed managers, emergency or other otherwise, of private corporations. Human mendacity and perfidy being what they are, what kind of system would you trust to be more accountable to the people — a private corporation or a democratic government?
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Anyone with a working long-term memory knows where this agenda to “Starve Public Schools Out Of Existence” came from.
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Good thing there's web search for the rest of us —
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fTAhc4QC4
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">Richard DeVos Advocates “Stealth” Strategy Against Public Education</a>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/04/972949/-Blackwater-In-Law-DeVos-outlines-stealth-plot-against-Public-Education
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">Blackwater In-Law DeVos Outlines “Stealth” Plot Against Public Education</a>
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<a href="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/12515/58655/Front_Page/Strategy_for_Privatizing_Public_Schools_Spelled_out_by_Dick_D">Strategy for Privatizing Public Schools Spelled out by Dick DeVos in 2002 Heritage Foundation Speech</a>
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The Governerd and his Privateers are starving the public sector in Michigan out of existence for a reason, so that private corporations can complete their hostile takeover of all public services. They stopped being content with tax abatements, bailouts, bribes, incentives, kickbacks, and worker concessions a long time ago — they want nothing less than the automatic funneling of tax dollars directly into their private corporate bankrolls without the annoying interference of all us pesky commoners:
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Mackinac Center For Public Policy • “State Needs Privatization”
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• http://www.educationreport.org/15050
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Lansing State Journal • “Going Private? — Snyder, Republicans Put New Focus On Merits Of Privatization”
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• http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110515/NEWS04/105150528/GOING-PRIVATE-Snyder-Republicans-put-new-focus-merits-privatization
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Three recent stories on the push to privatize schools:
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Virg Bernero on the GOP Agenda for Education
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7vhjTiqpX0
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The United Gates of America
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• http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/22/978218/-The-United-Gates-of-America
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Rupert Murdoch, “Education Software Provider”
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• http://www.businessinsider.com/rupert-murdoch-news-corp-education-2012-presidential-campaign-2011-5
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Anyone with a working long-term memory knows where this agenda to “Starve Public Schools Out Of Existence” came from.
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Good thing there's web search for the rest of us —
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Richard DeVos Advocates “Stealth” Strategy Against Public Education
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fTAhc4QC4
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Blackwater In-Law DeVos Outlines “Stealth” Plot Against Public Education
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• http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/04/972949/-Blackwater-In-Law-DeVos-outlines-stealth-plot-against-Public-Education
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Strategy for Privatizing Public Schools Spelled out by Dick DeVos in 2002 Heritage Foundation Speech
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• http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/12515/58655/Front_Page/Strategy_for_Privatizing_Public_Schools_Spelled_out_by_Dick_D
      
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