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Mary Lou Reed: Stop The Luna-cy

Idaho voters: Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Or a bridge for sale. As a goal, “school reform” has a sweet, honeyed sound that makes you want to believe someone’s come up with a better way to give kids a good start toward a successful life. Don’t be fooled. Idaho ballot Propositions One, Two and Three are masquerading as steps to school improvement. A closer look reveals the measures to be voted on November 6 are bad news for teachers and bad news for students. That’s bad for the rest of us. But they are good news to the rapidly expanding for-profit education industry, which is after your Idaho tax dollars — and the tax dollars of every other state that drinks their Kool-Aid/Mary Lou Reed, Inlander. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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