Dan Schaefer for Missouri

Conservative lawmakers want to gut the public school system, strip it for parts, and hand it over to private interests. Meanwhile, the U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world in academic performance.

In Missouri, the system has been rigged for over a decade, opening the door to create an environmental disaster just like our neighbors to the north. And who rigged it? Look no further than the Missouri Legislature, controlled by Republicans for over two decades. Under their watch, one law after another has stripped power from local communities and handed it to corporate agriculture.