Wealthy throwing money at charter-schools initiative
The donors who have given $2.3 million so far to put a charter-schools initiative on the ballot include only three families that have given less than $50,000 and only one family that has contributed less than $1,000.
Seattle Times political reporter
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The list of contributors to an initiative that would allow charter schools in Washington reads like a who's who of wealthy state power players.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is in for $1 million, the parents of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos have donated $450,000 and influential venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has chipped in $200,000, to say nothing of the six-figure gift from the other Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and EMFCO Holdings Chairwoman Katherine Binder.
In fact, according to campaign-finance records, the $2.3 million given to Initiative 1240 so far includes just three families that have donated less than
