The Education Invasion

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Joy Pullmann. The Education Invasion

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Prologue What Happened to My Children’s School?

Chapter 1 Origins — Nationalizing Education under the Radar

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Former governor Rick Perry of Texas withdrew membership in 2003. In 2014 his spokesman Josh Havens said the state’s NGA dues had been running $125,000 to $150,000 per year, and the governor “didn’t feel that active membership was a smart use of taxpayer funds.” Idaho suspended its membership in 2009 for financial reasons, but resumed paying about $40,000 for membership (plus $30,000 for travel to meetings) in 2013, said Jon Hanian, a spokesman for Governor Butch Otter. He explained that the governor “believes states are the laboratory of the republic” and “values sharing his experience as well as sharing the experience of other governors as he crafts public policy.”

When Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, pulled out of NGA in 2012, he told the Bangor Daily News, “I get no value out of those meetings. They are too politically correct and everybody is lovey-dovey and no decisions are ever made.”59 NGA’s communications director told the paper that governors cannot choose to leave; they are all NGA members even if they don’t pay dues. That raises the question why states pay dues at all.

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