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The privateers : how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers /

A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives In The Privateers, Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and w...

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Main Author:	Cowen, Josh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Privatization in education > United States. Educational vouchers > United States. Education and state > United States. Educational equalization > United States.

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