Public dollars diverted to private schools

[central scrutinizer]

Although the dateline is a couple weeks old, I have not seen this posted on DU. I almost hate to post anything today with all of the endorsement threads drowning everything else out.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12856

excerpt:

Funding a Movement

PFAW Analysis of U.S. Department of Education Grantmaking Reveals Steady Stream of Public Funds to Support School Privatization

An initial People For the American Way analysis of federal education grants has uncovered a pattern of major — and at times unsolicited — grants made to a small cadre of pro-voucher private advocacy groups. The funds diverted to these groups total more than $75 million over the last three years, and were doled out by the U.S. Department of Education despite chronic underfunding of the Bush administration’s own landmark ‘No Child Left Behind’ education legislation.

[wryter2000]

1. Ye gods

BushCo is utterly and truly trying to do away with all the progress of the 20th Century. We have to stop him!