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The War on Public Education in North Carolina; Rob Schofield, Diane Ravitch

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"Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch assesses the war on public education and its ties to the Koch ideology of strangling government. There was a time when Norh Carolina was widely seen as the most progressive stTe in the South. That time ended abruptly when the Tea Party took control of the state in 2010 and began to decimate public services, especially public education. The Tea Party introduced charters and vouchers, killed the state’s successful NC Teaching Fellows Program for career teachers (giving its funding to Teach for America for temps)."

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