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79 - What's behind right-wing attacks on education?
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Episode Notes
In 2021, Glenn Youngkin rode the idea of “parents' rights” to victory in his gubernatorial race. And now, Virginia conservatives have latched on to the idea as a tactic for banning books, attacking public education and starving publicly funded institutions.
The fight for public education is playing out right now in the General Assembly, as a whole host of parental rights bills work their way through the legislature. We spoke with Lisa Varga, Executive Director of the Virginia Library Association, about the chilling effect those books could have on educators--and how librarians have been dealing with the recent slew of criticism.
Then we talk to Bob Peterson, a lifelong educator, President of the Milwaukee School Board, and founder of the magazine Rethinking Schools, a grassroots magazine for social and racial justice in education. He gives us the bigger picture on the right-wing project: tracing attacks on education all the way back to 1954's Brown v. Board, the influence of dark money, and ultimate endgame of destroying the public sector.
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