since Reagan's bogus alarm, education crisis publication, "A Nation At Risk" (1983). It was Shock Doctrine 101 and afterwards came charters and for- profit efforts by the Bush Bros., the Waltons, Rupert Murdoch, and many others working to dismantle the proud American education system. Clearly a broadly educated public is dangerous to the operation of authoritarianism. The groundwork for much of what's going on began years ago I agree.
"A Nation At Risk," 1980s Driving Today's Ed Reform.' The document set off panic in a once self-satisfied nation and launched a movement to transform the public education system. A generation later, its effects are powerful. The excoriation of American schooling is what most people remember, but its actual legacy is ingrained in public education today. https://hechingerreport.org/report-1980s-driving-todays-education-reform/
MoJo. Jeb isn’t the first Bush to take up the education reformer mantle. When George W. Bush ran for Texas governor in 1994, he campaigned on school reform to highlight his “compassionate conservatism.” And brother Neil Bush founded an educational software company in 1999 that ultimately raised $23 million from investors, including his parents. The company, Ignite Learning, sells purple multimedia machines known as Curriculum on Wheels, or COWs. School districts, lobbied heavily by Neil, used No Child Left Behind money to buy the equipment during his brother’s administration. In 2006, Barbara Bush donated money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund—with the mandate that it be used to buy Neil’s products for several Houston schools that had taken in Katrina evacuees. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/jeb-bush-digitial-learning-public-schools/
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