To the editor:
I’m a big fan of Tom Hartman. He published an article titled “Americans Used to Understanding the Importance of Public Schools and the Commons.”

Key information from the article is: “The formula that billionaires from this era’s David Koch to this era’s Betsy DeVos have used to drive the destruction of public (racially integrated) schools has been set.
• Privatize public schools through charter schools and provide vouchers.
• Withhold funding from public schools while pouring cash into these new private organizations.
• Develop a nationwide propaganda campaign that public education is a failing and/or oppressive tool of the state.
• With public schools running out of cash, use the crisis to destroy teacher unions and eventually shut them down completely.
• When most elementary and middle schools collapse and only private schools remain, start dialing back the money available through vouchers.
• To reduce voucher funds and amounts over time, low-income people will have to borrow from banks to send their children to good schools, as Reaganomics did at our colleges.