Bevin's War on Public Education

[TexasTowelie]

The difficulty of the state’s financial woes cannot disguise the fact that Gov. Matt Bevin is waging a war on public education. He has made it clear through his words, his policies and, now, his budget proposal that he intends to cripple public education in Kentucky.

This is blindly ironic considering that public education is the most enduring, proven return on investment that government can make.

But rather than find other sources of revenue — even the easy stuff, such as legalizing gambling and marijuana, or raising the cigarette tax — Bevin is zealously sticking to the conservative trope of cutting, cutting and cutting more. I once predicted the realities of governing would strike Bevin (whom I expected to be), a pragmatic businessman, and he would govern more centrally than he would campaign.

I was totally wrong.

Of course, I didn’t factor in his political ambitions and desire to prove his conservative stripes to national, conservative donors.

Read more: https://www.leoweekly.com/2018/01/bevins-war/