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In her recent Common Dreams post, Diane Ravitch offers a clear and concise evisceration of 30 years of “school reform”. The billionaires who want to privatize public education prefer their solution of testing, competition and choice to spending the money needed to lift parents and children out of poverty… they “gladly fund “reforms” that require chicken feed, as compared to the taxes necessary to truly make zip codes irrelevant.” She doesn’t say so in this post, but she underscores the real reason for their enthusiasm for “competition and choice”: they all want to be the founder of the Walmart analog to public schools… but they are ending up with a Dollar Store analog instead.