Obama, Gates Work to Dissolve Suburban School Districts
19th September 2016
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In 2012, when I published Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, I predicted that Obama would use government funding as a lever to effectively dissolve suburban school districts, redistributing their revenues to nearby cities and forcing them to import students from outside the district. Now a “Dear Colleague” letter from three Obama cabinet secretaries makes it clear that AFFH is going to be used for precisely these purposes.
On top of that, a Gates Foundation-funded non-profit called Edbuild is working to forward the same goals, in part by advocating the “regional tax-base sharing” scheme I discussed in Spreading the Wealth. We’ve only recently been learning about the extraordinarily tight coordination between the Obama administration and the Gates Foundation on education policy. Gates is famous as the chief financial supporter of the Common Core, but few people realize that the Gates-Obama education agenda includes a death sentence for the locally-controlled suburban school district.