I found this link via https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/carnage, which includes another link to a bomb-shell of a piece on the 'consultant' who's spearheading this effort: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-the-right-wing-consu...
For those who did not click, this consultant is "the itinerant grim reaper of state budgets who has for more than twenty years been going from state to state when a new Republican governor comes into power cutting state spending down to the bone and making way for tax cuts for the wealthy."
For some of these people, I honestly have a hard time telling just how much they actually believe in these policies, and how much it happens to serve their other ideological interests by proxy even though they know full well that their economic policies of choice are a load of malarkey. I mean, history has shown a trail of bodies from these kinds of moves.
> strong investment in secondary and university education, which experienced in this period one of the fastest growth rates of Portuguese education history to date. [1]
So, it seems like Wikipedia contradicts your statement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal)#Educati...