Wal-Mart: Quite The Model Corporate Citizen
In 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,