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Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen | Edwize

Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen | Edwize:


Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen

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n a major expose, the New York Timehas 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,