The Assault on Public Education

One of America's greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace.

By Noam Chomsky

Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in the campaign to destroy what had been [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Posted by bestech on May 1, 2012 at 2:03 AM

    this is very intriguing “California State University officials come here and announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot”..I hope the government intervenes.

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    Posted by nicolae on May 23, 2012 at 2:22 AM

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    Posted by nic on Jun 20, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    The assault on education by the elite is very simple. Their kids that go to private institutions should be the ruling class and we commoners should be living like Bedouin’s in tents.They won’t be happy until that has happened.

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