HILLARY AND HEWLETT PACKARD
By Doug Martin, Author of Hoosier School Heist
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for chief of America continues to get backing by those in the school privatization business.
Hewlett Packard’s Meg Whitman--a Republican fundraiser whose net worth is $1.95 billion--has recently come out in support of Hillary and says she will donate “substantial” money to Clinton’s campaign.
Whitman in 2014 was appointed to Teach for America's board, alongside Bill Clinton's bank deregulator Larry Summers, one of the people responsible for the financial crisis of 2008 which bailed out the billionaires and kicked poor Americans out of their homes.
Whitman’s Whitman-Harsh Family Foundation handed TFA $10 million in 2011.
Also in 2011, Whitman’s foundation donated “$2.5 million to Summit Public Schools to start 10 more high-performing charter high schools in low-achieving areas in Silicon Valley, with a promise to double that amount if other tech titans match herSchools Matter: HILLARY AND HEWLETT PACKARD:
