News Flash: Corporate America causes public education to fail

From Lou Dobbs Tonight last night:

The great equalizer in our society [is] public education. Corporate America is quite content -- and so have both the Democratic and the Republican parties been content to allow it to fail.

The patient viewer can only assume that his sources for this claim will come during tonight's broadcast.

(Warning: speculation ahead.) Not all public schools are failing, not by a wide margin. So my divining rod tells me that Dobbs is probably most concerned with public education because it is not as centralized as other governmental functions are. School systems are funded with property taxes and administrated by local boards. State-level departments and our cabinet-level federal department only offer the most general of oversight.

But this reality belies the flaw in his argument: Corporate America can wield as much real or imagined power as he claims. But something tells me that blue chip giants have no interest in wrecking, to name example, Maine School Administrative District #55, "serving the communities of Baldwin, Cornish, Hiram, Parsonsfield, and Porter." Or any other school districts, for that.