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-- destroy public education;
-- privatize the nation's schools;
-- militarize them to create a stream of future recruits;
-- destroy teachers unions and their ability to bargain for better schools, higher pay and benefits for teachers, and tenure for the most qualified;
-- educate the well-off, not the poor, disadvantaged, and most youths of color;
-- turn education in America into a class and income-based system; and
-- shut out opposition voices to advance his reactionary agenda.
Later in the year, a reinvented, renamed NCLB bill will be introduced in Congress, likely passed, and signed into law, advancing the worst of the above measures that will wreck the American dream for millions of disadvantaged youths who'll be sacrificed on the alter of marketplace education.
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