Ed Reformers Use Fox News-Style Scaremongering

The GOP’s internal struggles since the 2010 midterms have been so intense, they’ve been described in terms of “civil war,” but the past few weeks have seen major conflicts erupt in Democratic territory, primarily in response to Obama’s centrist tendencies, and their underlying continuity with Bush-era policies. This happened most profoundly in a high-profile education dispute where Obama and his administration were nowhere to be seen, though they had done everything to set the stage, with their own brand of corporate education “reform”: Race to the Top.