David I. Backer is an associate professor of education policy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, an organizer, and a former high school teacher. He is the author of Althusser and Education and As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools (The New Press) and co-translated the philosopher Enrique Dussel’s Pedagogics of Liberation. He has written for publications including The American Prospect, n+1, Dissent, and Jacobin. He lives in Philadelphia.