{"id":1545997,"date":"2024-03-10T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=73ac36f10fbb7f0ffc1797b01a4e8b02"},"modified":"2024-03-10T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:19:48","slug":"billionaires-yass-and-devos-are-on-a-crusade-to-destroy-us-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/10\/billionaires-yass-and-devos-are-on-a-crusade-to-destroy-us-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires Yass and DeVos Are on a Crusade to Destroy US Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot July day in Tampa at the 2022 Moms for Liberty Summit, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told the crowd that the US Department of Education should be abolished. This claim &mdash; that the very department she recently led should not exist &mdash; earned her a standing ovation from the Moms for Liberty members in the room. The moment highlights how extreme the right wing in the United States has...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/billionaires-yass-and-devos-are-on-a-crusade-to-destroy-us-public-schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/billionaires-yass-and-devos-are-on-a-crusade-to-destroy-us-public-schools\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pair are spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4237,21275,428,50207,39142,4721,938,6467],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545998,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545997\/revisions\/1545998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}