Economic and religious school reformers formed a coalition in Michigan

Evidence

But the alliance between privatizers and proselytizers received a major boost in the 1990s in Michigan, the first state to feel the full combined force of economic and religious education reformers. The story really begins with the emergence of a particular kind of billionaire, and it reaches its apex when the daughter of one of those billionaires grew up and became the secretary of education for the United States. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 734

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay: how ‘school choice’ welded libertarian privatization to proselytizing — the supply-side fusion of two movements that each needed the other’s frame.
• XREF: connects to: Deregulated Michigan charter laws left abuses and poor academics unchecked — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 773; Northern evangelicals led abolition and common-school movements for poor and immigrant children — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 47

Broader Connections

• Northern evangelicals led abolition and common-school movements for poor and immigrant children #exemplifies (0.85) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 47