Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen | Edwize

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Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen

by Leo Casey

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n a major expose, the New York Times has revealed a trail of corruption, bribery and cover-up at the highest levels of Wal-Mart, a leading corporate funder of anti-union and anti-public education projects and initiatives.
The list of 2011 grantees of the Walton Family Foundation, the Wal-Mart’s corporate foundation, reads like a veritable who’s who of corporate education reform efforts. Among the more prominent beneficiaries of Wal-Mart money are:

• Michelle Rhee’s and Joel Klein’s StudentFirst
• Eva Moskowitz’s Success Charter Network
• Education Reform Now, the not for profit arm of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)
• The New Teacher Project
• Teach for America
• The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the state charter school organizations in California,