Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
“‘In the first place, God made idiots,’ Mark Twain once wrote in an 1879 travel book. ‘That was for practice. Then he made school boards.’ It appears that most Americans now agree with him. New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even ‘somewhat satisfied’ with the state of education in the U.S. What is most troubling is that the near-total contempt for our school system does not make a bit of difference. Families and students have become largely irrelevant to an education cartel, a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating political alliance of unions and politicians. According to Gallup, only 32 percent of American adults say they are ‘completely’ or ‘somewhat’ satisfied with the quality of K-12 education. That is the lowest figure in Gallup’s 27 years of asking the question. Public satisfaction with the school system has dropped almost 20 points since just 2024.” (10/06/26)
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/06/the-education-cartel-and-the-blue-state-school-scam/