Broad Foundation’splan to expand influence in school reform - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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Broad Foundation’splan to expand influence in school reform

By Valerie Strauss

This was written by Ken Libby and Stan Karp. Libby is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Karp is director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Centerand an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine.

By Ken Libby and Stan Karp

The Broad Foundation wants to step on the gas.

The California-based foundation, built on the housing and insurance empire of billionaire Eli Broad, has made “transforming K-12 urban public education” a major priority. Its training and placement of top administrators in urban districts across the country and support for 

The Broad Foundation memo

by Valerie Strauss

Here’s the memo from The Broad Center that proposes a series of strategic shifts in the foundation’s education programs. The post above this one tells the story of this memo.