Politics and Profits Dictate Educational Content Through Book Fairs

by Marissa Streit

April 30, 2026

The Washington Times

It's nothing new for parents to find alarming things in their children's backpacks, but now those things are coming from official school channels.

Just follow the money. More parents are beginning to discover what we can call the education-industrial complex: a collusion of politicians and bureaucrats, teachers unions and textbook publishers.

This is how it works: Politicians legislate social engineering because they think it will get them reelected. Bureaucrats implement those policies and make them contingent upon tax dollars; teachers unions then develop training seminars and align lesson plans accordingly; and finally, publishers collect a big paycheck by selling books and supplementary content all singing from that same political hymnal.

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