Nashville Public Radio thanks the Thorne Family Charitable Fund, the Scarlett Foundation, the HCA Healthcare Foundation, the Joe C. Davis Foundation and the Andrew Allen Foundation for their generous support of our education beat.
It’s great that the education beat has some solid financial support. What’s noteworthy, though, is that two of the five sponsors of education news are also hard core privatization advocates.
First, there’s the Scarlett Foundation. This group, headed up by Joe Scarlett, is solidly in the privatization camp. Plus, as the Scarlett Foundation’s page notes about their board chair:
He serves as chairman of the Scarlett Hotel Group and vice-chairman of the Beacon Center of Tennessee.
Yes, THAT Beacon Center – the conservative group pushing policy schemes like school CONTINUE READING: Paid For By . . . – Tennessee Education Report
