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Public education was decimated during the last recession and literally never recovered. With state budgets weeks away from finalization, it's a near certainty that this recession will land a knockout blow, not just from giddy Republicans but Democrats too. https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
A brief accounting of what the last recession gave us in education: minuscule budgets, privatization, high stakes testing charter schools, for profit colleges, student debt crisis. That was post recession Obama era policy. It became a lost decade. https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
That piggybacked on Bush's No Child Left Behind Era: high stakes testing, cutting every department outside of math and english, charter schools, privatization. https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
Now, in states like New York with Democratic control of every chamber, @NYGovCuomo wants to throttle budgets and expand already failed technologization efforts from Silicon Valley rather than tax the rich, drawing on the very worst ideas of Obama and Bush. https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
In red Ohio, resistance hero @GovMikeDeWine has already cut K-12 and college/university education by hundreds of millions despite having a multibillion untapped rainy day fund. It's inexplicable. What day is rainier than this? https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
Now, Dems and Repubs are using coronavirus as an excuse to defund public education, cut history, english, arts, and sciences, and hand over control to big business. It's the worst thing you could possibly do in a recession, and a rightwing dream come true. https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/
