Of possible Interest:
David Kirshner
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To Whom it May Concern,
I am writing from NOW with Bill Moyers, the PBS public affairs series,
to alert you an important story on the issue of privatizing public
education, airing tomorrow night on PBS. In particular, NOW's report
looks at how the Department of Education's discretionary spending
budget
has been tapped and funneled into a handful of organizations that are
promoting school vouchers and examines these groups' intimate ties to
the Bush administration.
I hope that you can alert your members and organizational partners to
this important report. Please let me know if you will be able to
spread
the word about this important broadcast.
Sincerely,
Su Patel
Director of Outreach
NOW with Bill Moyers
patels@thirteen.org
NOW with Bill Moyers
PBS Airdate: Friday, March 26, 2004 at 9 p.m. on PBS
(check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
Even though President Bush's controversial plan for taxpayer-funded
vouchers to subsidize private and religious schools was killed in
Congress, the Department of Education has filtered $77 million to
private, conservative groups promoting the privatization of public
education. As millions of children go without basic educational
needs,
some critics are asking: shouldn't that money have gone to saving
America's crumbling public schools? On Friday, March 26, 2004, NOW
with
Bill Moyers looks at how Department of Education's discretionary
spending budget has been tapped and funneled into a handful of
organizations that are promoting school vouchers and examines these
groups' intimate ties to the Bush administration.
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