It's pretty clear you're trying to minimize the consequences of the impending defeat in court, and leave the impression that this was a legitimate investigation quashed by political force. Anybody who has been following this story will notice that you're leaving a lot of details out. The midnight raids that destroy people's lives, but strangely don't result in charges, for instance. The gag orders that prohibit the targets from even telling people they ARE targets, let alone defending their reputations.
This whole process looks like something that belongs in a police state, not a democracy.
Ok, you obviously are invested with the charter school movement, the gateway drug to privatization. If they were so great, why won't they show their books? Plus, in Indiana, you don't even have to be accredited to be handed that money. Look at Bush in Texas--just started handing out money. All you had to do was fill out an application, get the check, cash it and make like a drum and beat it. And here's something else--public schools aren't so hot--because they are UNDERFUNDED. Can I repeat that for you? What is wrong with public education has ALWAYS been wrong with public education (which you would know if you were, as you say, a teacher)--the funding structure. The only place to get it right, surprise, surprise, is New Jersey. There, poorer districts get MORE money, which is exactly how it should work. And what's that you say? Throwing money at the problem won't solve it? Apparently it does--look at the gazillions the Koch brothers are paying out to buy public education. If they weren't getting their money's worth they wouldn't be doing it.
I read several stories in the New York Times yesterday, one of which was titled "Five Things You Need to Know about Scott Walker". It was desperately lacking in the real things people need to know about the man and his record. CMD's account should be submitted to the NYT with in rebuttal.
You have to admit that Walker has more spunk than the last hard right-wing governor picked by WI, Tommy Thompson. Thompson targeted the powerless poor, Walker targets labor and the middle class -- those who have the money and means to organize and push back, if they felt like it.
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