Despite Some Anti-Union Nonsense,

this column is remarkably supportive of public education considered it appears in Forbes and is critical of Obama's neoliberal horse manure attacking it.

And Obama IS getting bad advice, but this is what happens when you have somebody elected to the presidency who really is too young for the job, and, unlike Bill Clinton who was elected at a younger age or for that matter JFK, doesn't have any kind of firsthand knowledge of major historic events, except for the Reagan years. There is no understanding about how important it is to have public institutions such as schools and how they must be shielded from the predations of the privatizers with their profit motive. If he did understand that, he wouldn't have appointed Arne Duncan to be Secretary of Education and would be ditching the No Child Left Behind Act.

Schools aren't businesses and can't be run on business models. That in a nutshell is the fatal flaw in all of these recent "reform" schemes.