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Maurice Cunningham: Koch $$ for “National Parents Union” | Diane Ravitch's blog

Maurice Cunningham: Koch $$ for “National Parents Union” | Diane Ravitch's blog

Maurice Cunningham: Koch $$ for “National Parents Union”



Maurice Cunningham is a dogged researcher into Dark Money and its role in the pursuit of privatizing public education. Cunningham is a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts. Open the link and read in full.
In his latest post, he reports that Koch money as well as Walton money, Zuckerberg money, Gates money, and Dell money, is supporting the “National Parents Union,” a front for the billionaires.
He writes:
There’s millions of dollars sloshing around Massachusetts Parents United and National Parents Union these days. Some of it is from Charles Koch…
The Koch connection was apparent when Charles Koch put a proxy on the board of National Parents Union. Now we know for sure Koch has money invested in NPU. Others holding stakes in NPU (housed in the same shop CONTINUE READING: Maurice Cunningham: Koch $$ for “National Parents Union” | Diane Ravitch's blog