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The Republican Takeover of American Education

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Convinced that teachers are brainwashing children to be left-wing ideologues, conservatives are quickly grabbing control of the American classroom.

Photo-Illustration: Adam Maida. Photo: Glasshouse Images/Getty Images (pencil); Lipskiy/Shutterstock (pencil) This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Republicans have begun saying things about American schools that not long ago would have struck them as peculiar, even insane. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has called schools “a cesspool of Marxist indoctrination.” Former secretary of State Mike Pompeo predicts that “ teachers’ unions , and the filth that they’re teaching our kids,” will “take this republic do

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