GOP critical race theory attack is straight from Reagan s school privatization playbook
Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
June 27, 2021
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Then-California Governor Ronald Reagan is heckled over school budget cuts while trying to talk to a crowd of protesters in front of the Capitol in Sacramento.Associated Press 1967
Teachers, the Republican governor argued, “have interpreted academic freedom to be their right to teach without political interference,” seeking to advance their “partisan political viewpoints.” Professing shock that “educated young people” were being indoctrinated into “anti-Americanism,” he demanded action.
The year was 1967, and the governor in question was Ronald Reagan. As the New York Times later put it, Reagan’s rhetoric made Richard Nixon look “positively charitable.”
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