Republicans And Other Reactionaries Destroying American Education, Top-Down Edition

Jesus.  It's also pretty fucking ironic that UVA and schools like that are seen today as almost-Ivy League because they are so much harder to get into than 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, yet the institutions themselves are impotent shadows of their own pasts.  Houseplant-idiot Ronny Raygun led the way in Kallyforniah, and we've all watched as Michigan and North Carolina and Texas and even Florida have obliterated the progress they had won in their educational infrastructure because teabaggers and Republicans and neoliberals and other right-wing shitbirds are too stupid to be in charge of a gods-damned carnival funhouse, let alone a major university.