Governor Cuomo has asked two software billionaires to help him "reimagine" public school. One of them got rich from user-subjugating nonfree software, the other from surveillance capitalism by online dis-services.

We can imagine what injustices they will push on New York State public schools. And it isn't even a good education.

In the case of Bill Gates, we don't need to imagine. His foundation pressured the US to impose excruciating high-stakes tests, so that the whole school year is aimed at them. He offers so much money as grants for research on education that hardly anyone in the field dares to express doubts about his stance.