What Gov. Scott Walker is about to do to Wisconsin’s public schools (WashPost)

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Each year money for schools is cut and on top of that more is siphoned off for Walker's privatization schemes.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/08/what-gov-scott-walker-is-about-to-do-to-wisconsins-public-schools/?postshare=3121436398012622


What Gov. Scott Walker is about to do to Wisconsin’s public schools
By Valerie Strauss July 8 at 2:00 PM

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is busy these days, what with preparing to officially join the gaggle of Republican candidates vying for the 2016 GOP Republican nomination and planning to sign a new state budget. What’s in that budget is deep cause for concern for Wisconsin’s public education system, as Bob Peterson, founder of the Rethinking Schools magazine and former president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, explains in this post, which appeared on his Education for Democracy blog and which I am publishing with permission.

By Bob Peterson

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is expected to do two things in the next few days: Formally announce his candidacy for for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and sign Wisconsin’s biennial budget. The first may receive national attention, but it is the second that will disastrously affect Wisconsin if the budget isn’t changed — and that should receive national play.

Buried within the budget are 135 non-budget policy items — a toxic cocktail of attacks on public education, democracy, environmental protections and labor rights.

For Wisconsin’s schools, the budget is a blueprint for abandoning public education. In Milwaukee, in addition to insufficient funding, the budget includes a “takeover” plan that increases privatization and decreases democratic control of the city’s public schools.............

[Tatiana La Belle]

1. How did Walker get the power to do EVERY bad thing possible

in such a short time? I know there's Koch money, but what happened to the Wisconsin electorate?

[mopinko]

2. koch bros money.

supporting rw screaming heads on the radio.
controlling the language.
buying ad time.
stirring up tea party shit.
and running a flunky in every single seat for anything. school fucking board.

and of course, dog whistling his fool head off.
dont think that money all goes to dc.

koch's have a big footprint, too. timber and mining.

[Tatiana La Belle]

3. It's terrifying how much he has been able to do in almost no time.

It's like no one could stop him.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. yep

[Fred Sanders]

4. What happened to judicial oversight of illegal laws passed by the Walker regime?

[Tatiana La Belle]

5. Good question.

I honestly don't know.

[Scuba]

8. Simple. They rigged the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

[freshwest]

9. Same thing that happened around the time of the recall. Judges paid off. Add to that, rampant

Brownshirt tactics employed against all dissenters. Many signed up to vote just to fight 'the gay menace' their pastors fired them up about. Faux news coverage and media consolidation solidified the cause of Walker, as the victim of mobs and agitators.

It would almost be admirable, the efficiency of the Koch machine, if it weren't so evil. They've worked and paid to reorganize our society from the ground up through media persuasion for over three decades directly, but even longer than that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

(Although that second link and the information was from Reid first.)

The woman who hid the votes got away with it. The judges who threw out charges got away with it, while another was assaulted and nothing done. Elected Democrats were locked out of the process. Walker made a deal with one public union, the capitol police, to deny the rest their say.

Those who were exercising their right of free speech in the recall election were brownshirted by right winger storm troops. Their homes and jobs targeted, property destroyed, threats that were made and carried out, silencing them in fear for their lives and livelihood.

The mining interests had armed militia hired by the corporations to keep people serving notice and documenting what was being done there. They gave the union school and public workers a choice to retire and get out of the way, or get no retirement.

These people are as ruthless as Tom DeLay was, when he said it was not enough to just defeat the Democrats. They were to be knocked down and then when down, stomped on and tossed off a cliff. That motto was in his office. We can't forget he organized and paid for the Brooks Brothers riot. HRC has said recently, and not so recently, she would attack Jeb for the stolen election of 2000. The GOP are afraid of her wrath, which is why the generate nonstop attacks on her and use all the tools at their disposal.

They follow no procedure without the physical force to back it up. They're using the internconnected data base made by corporations to track purchases to make tlists of enemies. The Koches paid, what is to most of us a fortune, for the personal data of 300M Americans.

The NSA thing is a Libertarian diversion from the real threat to our privacy and liberty. If we let them into the White House, we'll see what 1984 looks like in our own lifetime.

There will be no escape from this technologically driven society, in which we are held chattel.* Folks are being played while all that we had is being stolen. Those getting'a piece of the action,' don't care about process. They believe any compromise and democratic process is the wail of weaklings who deserve to be eliminated. They believe in brute force. Each demand they make is made, even when quietly, by intimidation.

*(ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chatel, from medieval Latin capitale, from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head.’ Compare with capital and cattle).

[GusBob]

7. Am so tired hearing about Trump

Trump ain't gonna happen

Scotty is another Bush. Could happen

[Starry Messenger]

10. k&r