587 online
 
Most Popular Choices
Share on Facebook 33 Printer Friendly Page More Sharing Summarizing
OpEdNews Op Eds    H4'ed 7/20/17

Don't Trust Business with Education

By       (Page 1 of 1 pages)   1 comment

Jim Hightower
Message Jim Hightower
Become a Fan
  (45 fans)

From Other Words

Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations -- and themselves.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Undermines Civil Rights & Favors Predatory Lenders Over Students
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Undermines Civil Rights & Favors Predatory Lenders Over Students
(Image by YouTube, Channel: Democracy Now!)
  Details   DMCA

Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick's dad Richard amassed through his shady Amway corporation. But what they've done with their Amway money is certainly not the American Way.

The DeVos couple are part of the Koch brothers' coterie, pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.

In particular, Betsy DeVos has spent years and millions of dollars spreading the right wing's ideological nonsense that our tax dollars should subsidize private schools -- even ones that exclude people of color and the poor, as well as profiteering schools known to cheat students and taxpayers.

Bizarrely, Donald Trump chose this vehement opponent of public education to head the agency in charge of -- guess what -- public education. Rather than working to help improve our public schools, the Trump-DeVos duo wants to take $20 billion from their federal funding and give it to corporate chains.

To see the "efficiency" of this scheme, look to Arizona, where state senate president Steve Yarborough pushed privatization into law. One of Arizona's corporatized schools, called ACSTO, pays its executive director $125,000. His name is Steve Yarborough.

ACSTO also pays millions of dollars to another for-profit corporation named HY Processing to handle administrative chores. The "Y" in HY stands for Yarborough.

And ACSTO pays $52,000 a year in rent to its landlord -- Steve Yarborough.

As Wall Street banksters, drug company gougers, airline fee fixers, and so many others have taught us over and over, most corporate executives are paid big bucks to take every shortcut to cheat and do whatever to squeeze out another dime in profits.

Why would we entrust our school children to them?

Interesting 1  
Rate It | View Ratings

Jim Hightower Social Media Pages: Facebook page url on login Profile not filled in       Twitter page url on login Profile not filled in       Linkedin page url on login Profile not filled in       Instagram page url on login Profile not filled in

Jim Hightower is an American populist, spreading his message of democratic hope via national radio commentaries, columns, books, his award-winning monthly newsletter (The Hightower Lowdown) and barnstorming tours all across America.

Go To Commenting
The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
Writers Guidelines

 
Contact AuthorContact Author Contact EditorContact Editor Author PageView Authors' Articles
Support OpEdNews

OpEdNews depends upon can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.
Daily Weekly     OpEd News Newsletter
Name
Email
   (Opens new browser window)
 

Most Popular Articles by this Author:     (View All Most Popular Articles by this Author)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not about free trade. It's a corporate coup d'etat -- against us!

Trump Hates the American Public -- Here's How He Reveals His Disdain

The Post Office is not broke -- and it hasn't taken any of our tax money since 1971

The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries -- and what they want in return

Citizens United Against Citizens United: A Grassroots Campaign to Restore Democracy

The Audacity of Greed

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Tell A Friend