The City Fund Spending Prolifically to Privatize Public Education
By Thomas Ultican 3/2/2020
The City Fund has joined the Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in the upper echelon of spending to privatize public education. (Gates is in a spending zone of his own.) City Fund grants are of the same magnitude as CZI’s and approximately half the size as those from the Walton foundation. Since its establishment in July, 2018, City Fund reports issuing $110 million in large grants defined as more than $200,000; smaller grants not accounted for. Founders John Arnold and Reed Hastings have also provided the associated political action group, Public School Allies, with $15 million.
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On the ides of March, the Indy Star reported that David Harris the CEO of Mind Trust in Indianapolis was leaving to join a new national organization. Since Julius Caesar’s assassination, events linked to the ides of March are often viewed with alarm. This event portended a reorganized attack on public education and a new billionaire financed entity dedicated to establishing the portfolio model of public school management throughout America.
Until February of 2020, the secretive City Fund did not even have a web site. On July 31, 2018, City Fund Managing Partner Neerav Kingsland took to his blog and made public The City Fund – a new non-profit – and named its founding CONTINUE READING: The City Fund Spending Prolifically to Privatize Public Education | tultican