Who Is Funding Charters?
I recently learned about an amazing new website that shows the commitment of private foundations to charter schools: http://www.erinproject.org/foundation. The website was created by the John and Laura Arnold Foundation. John Arnold is a Texas billionaire who has given a lot of money to Michelle Rhee for her campaign to diminish the teaching profession and privatize public education. The foundation has created a truly astonishing website from which you can learn about funding for charter schools and other initiatives that promote corporate reformers policies. There are a few references to research, but none of the research listings is comprehensive or
I Am Puzzled by the Gates Foundation
When one foundation has amassed over $30 billion, it has the financial power to shape the policies of government to its liking.
The Gates Foundation has more than $30 billion, and when Warren Buffet’s gift of another $30 billion is added to the Gates fund, the Gates Foundation will have the power to direct global policy on almost any issue of its choosing.
Anthony Cody published a guest column in Education Week (funded in part by the Gates Foundation) that describes how the Gates Foundation intervenes in agricultural and environmental issues around the world, often
The Gates Foundation has more than $30 billion, and when Warren Buffet’s gift of another $30 billion is added to the Gates fund, the Gates Foundation will have the power to direct global policy on almost any issue of its choosing.
Anthony Cody published a guest column in Education Week (funded in part by the Gates Foundation) that describes how the Gates Foundation intervenes in agricultural and environmental issues around the world, often
More about Stand for Children in Memphis
It turns out that Stand for Children is not only the guiding organization behind the plan to transfer large numbers of public school students to charter schools, along with $212 million of taxpayers dollars, in Memphis/Shelby County, but it was previously active in promoting the pro-privatization propaganda film “Waiting for ‘Superman’” to parents and the public in Memphis.
As you will see in the link below, John Legend, the singer who is on the board of the Wall Street hedge fund
As you will see in the link below, John Legend, the singer who is on the board of the Wall Street hedge fund
Muddy the Narrative? We Know That Trick.
I have received a copy of this story from about 15 different people, all of whom live in Louisiana. The story tells about emails showing that John White, the commissioner of education in Louisiana, hatched a strategy to mislead the media and divert attention from the botched voucher program. After a local newspaper revealed that some of the schools accepting vouchers were little denominational schools that have neither facilities nor teachers, the commissioner had to find a way to change the story from his incompetence to something else.
I guess people send me the story thinking that I will be shocked by the idea of manipulating the media. But living in New York City, I can’t be shocked because we have a Department of Education that has done this sort of
I guess people send me the story thinking that I will be shocked by the idea of manipulating the media. But living in New York City, I can’t be shocked because we have a Department of Education that has done this sort of