Journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire explains how Democrats bought into school privatization - as a class project of the party's anti-union elite donors, an an anti-teacher platform used by the Clintons to advance their own careers in the absence of anything material to offer voters, and as a problem that will only get worse as attacking public schools continues to be a bi-partisan fixation.
Jennifer wrote the Baffler article How Education Reform Ate the Democratic Party.
Jennifer Berkshire is a freelance journalist, education editor at AlterNet and host of the podcast Have You Heard?