Good summary, Jessica. I've been watching this process unfold since the early 2000s, when I was in grad school and read Paul Shaker and Elizabeth Heilman's brilliant article, "The New Common Sense of Education."

Or here's Lois Weiner's take back in 2010:

"So, we all really need to understand that the neoliberal agenda has come home to us. It is a project; some people would say that it's a conspiracy. I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy. You know why? Because conspiracies are secret. This isn't secret! This isn't secret . . . Listen, we are in deep doo doo. We are in real deep doo doo.

And I'm just gonna say that in Diane [Ravitch's] book [The Revisionists Revised] . . . she argued that, "The public schools had not been devised by scheming capitalists to impose social control on an unwilling proletariat to reproduce social inequality. The schools were never an instrument of cultural repression, as the radical critics maintain." That's what Diane says in The Revisionists Revised.

Well, you know what? Maybe we can argue about 150 years ago when the public schools were created, but there is no argument now; that is the agenda. — Lois Weiner

Weiner's whole speech is worth reading: https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1286