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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: calling them out
Perish the thought that Americans send their educational dollars anywhere but to Mr Murphy's pocket. What foul conspiracy could be at work to suggest otherwise? Art In a message dated 6/28/2006 4:10:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, jhorn@monmouth.edu writes: Public education's enduring achievement Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - Bangor Daily News << Back By William J. Murphy Dan Lips, an educational analyst at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, says that he supports a "quality education" for all of "America's schoolchildren" ("Students waiting for a quality education," BDN, June 19), but what he and his fellow analysts at The Heritage Foundation actually want is to undermine the vital heritage of American public education. What they want is to take federal money away from the public schools, where everyone is entitled to a quality education, and bestow that money, our money, on private schools, where a quality education is available only to those who can afford it....
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