If there is no library, it shouldn’t be allowed to call itself a school anymore.

One strategy among his planned overhaul — called the New Education System, or NES — was to close libraries at 28 schools [eventually 85] out of the district’s 274 total and turn them into “team centers.” It would accomplish two goals, he said: create a place to send “disruptive” students after removing them from class as well as an environment to send high-achieving students for enrichment.

… these schools — and the entire school district — serves a student population that’s overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

So much to talk about. This is in Texas, btw.

Kids can’t learn about revolution or eating the rich. It’s a damned shame what conservatism has done to this country.

This deliberate gutting of schools, and by extension students’ and society’s futures, makes me want to scream. I give up. The US had a good run.

Literacy and life-long learning go down. This is the ideal scenario for republican overlords who need to trick people into voting for them.