Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale
Eli Broad is one of the chief billionaires pushing education reform.
In 2017, Broad “inserted himself” in the Los Angeles School Board race via the largest contribution to an individual candidate– $100K. Two years earlier, in 2015, Broad was caught planning an “initiative” to put half of LA’s students in charter schools over an eight-year period. (The plan was leaked to the New York Times.)
One year prior to that– 2014– Broad approached US ed sec Arne Duncan’s speech writer, Peter Cunningham, about creating a billionaire-funded, ed-reform blog to defend ed reformers against “being piled on” by non-funded, grass-roots-emergent, pro-traditional-public-ed bloggers. (Sad but true.)
And in 2011, Broad donated $25M to help make the teacher-temp org, Teach for America (TFA), a permanent training program for those temp teachers. (Ironic to work to make TFA permanent so that it could permanently churn out temporary teachers.)
If you want a sense of how far the Broad reach is in supporting ed-reform organizations, peruse the numerous grants Broad had paid in 2017 as listed on the 2017 Broad Foundation tax form. The list is replete with ed-reform organizations, particularly those related to charter schools.
Broad’s efforts have also included the Los Angeles-based “Broad Center,” which includes the “Broad Academy” and “Broad Residency,” has served as pseudo-credentialing mechanism for would-be leaders espousing market-based ed CONTINUE READING: Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale | deutsch29
