Don't Think for a Minute

the assault on public education is merely limited to the United States: This is a worldwide phenomemon.

Case in point: Mexico:

The teachers were protesting against Calderón’s signing Monday of legislation that allows wealthier Mexicans sending their children to private school to deduct much of the tuition costs from their income taxes. The teachers and other opponents of the measure charge that it constitutes an escalation of the attacks on public education in Mexico and is in violation of the country’s constitution.

The demonstration was called by Section 22 of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE). The union struck 13,500 schools across the state on Wednesday, organizing a march through the center of the city of Oaxaca and blockades of highways in a number of areas. The union demanded the resignation of the state government’s secretary general, Irma Piñeyro, and the director general of the State Institute of Public Education, Bernardo Vázquez Colmenares.