For decades people at this newspaper, politicians, and citizens alike worried far too little about the quality of our schools and far too much about "troubling questions" and and the "bottom line" of corporations.  What we have now and have had for many years as a result of this corporatism are low quality schools.  Arts programs cut, huge class sizes, short school years,...

I wonder if the author of this editorial has any children in 4J?  Based on the lack of urgency and focus on corporate profit I would guess no.

The wealthy elite who love trickle down economics and who have been rollin in the dough for decades will surely be out fear-mongering in full force.  Some may remember many of these rich corporatists assuring us that if we passes M66 and M67 that business would "vote with their feet" and leave the state.  This is of course textbook corporate propaganda that never materialized.  They stayed. they paid and our schools and our state benefited from investing in education!