(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)President-elect Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he doesn’t suppose a strong federal involvement in public education. The origin of the school board dates to 1647, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony required every town to establish a public school. Yet school boards are viewed as an impediment by billionaires, like Reed Hastings of Netflix, who argued that school boards should be replaced with corporate boards through charter expansion. Chileans choose among elite private schools; public schools; and voucher schools, which are government-subsidized privates; and corporate schools, which are similar to American charters. Nearly all upper- and middle-class children attend private, corporate or voucher schools, leaving only the poor behind in the public schools.

Source: Washington Post November 20, 2016 23:07 UTC