Public education was decimated during the last recession and literally never recovered. With state budgets weeks away from finalization, it& #39;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/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...

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/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...

That piggybacked on Bush& #39;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/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...

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/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...

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& #39;s inexplicable. What day is rainier than this? https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-tragic-bipartisan-war-on-public-education/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...

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& #39;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/">https://prospect.org/coronavir...