Fears for Tiers: The Fix Is In

Black grade school at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois, 1937. Photographer: Russell Lee. Library of Congress

Part 2b: Systemic Discrimination sets the stage for the DeVos Agenda

In Part 2a, we saw an example of how the DeVos Department of Education uses racial inequity in school discipline to strengthen wealth inequality. In a more general manner, this strategy permeates the DeVos Agenda, which uses problems within the educational system as a sledgehammer to destroy…