CAN I GET A LITTLE SUPPORT FOR THAT SUPPOSITION? – Dad Gone Wild

CAN I GET A LITTLE SUPPORT FOR THAT SUPPOSITION? – Dad Gone Wild

CAN I GET A LITTLE SUPPORT FOR THAT SUPPOSITION?

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

 

So riddle me this? I can shop at Publix without a mask, but I can’t get more than 4 tickets per student to a high school graduation ceremony, why? A graduation is a once-in-a-lifetime event and it appears we are erring on the side of caution. We are talking about robbing students and families of an event that was over a decade in the making without good cause.

Administrators talk about the need to make meaningful relationships and the importance of SEL. We want communities to celebrate and buy into the value of education. Yet here we are, a time for celebration and the reinforcing of bonds between communities and schools, and we are punting. For what? What is the possible upside of depriving students of the opportunity to share one of the most memorable moments of their life with their extended families?

At a time when people are re-emerging from their COVID cocoons, I would argue that it is more important than ever to reaffirm the touchstones of our lives. Graduation, marriage, the birth of children, are milestones that mark our journey through life. Yet, MNPS feels CONTINUE READING: CAN I GET A LITTLE SUPPORT FOR THAT SUPPOSITION? – Dad Gone Wild

Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated - The Washington Post

Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated - The Washington Post

Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated

The confirmation of the affair and investigation comes two weeks after Gates and Melinda French Gates announced plans to divorce

SEATTLE — Bill Gates acknowledged through a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee, which Microsoft said led its board to investigate the “intimate relationship” shortly before he resigned from the board last year.

It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair, which took place two decades ago, played in the decision the Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda French Gates, made to divorce after 27 years of marriage. When they announced their divorce earlier this month, the couple posted identical and simultaneous tweets saying that “after a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage.”

In a divorce filing that day, French Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”

“There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,” Gates’s spokeswoman, Bridgitt Arnold, said in an emailed statement.

French Gates’s divorce lawyer, Robert Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Members of Microsoft’s board in 2019 looked into a Microsoft engineer’s allegations that she had a sexual relationship with Gates, according to Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw.

“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” Shaw said in an emailed statement. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.” CONTINUE READING: Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated - The Washington Post

Kansas City Schools’ Accreditation Woes: Are the Philanthropic Vultures Circling? | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

Kansas City Schools’ Accreditation Woes: Are the Philanthropic Vultures Circling? | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

Kansas City Schools’ Accreditation Woes: Are the Philanthropic Vultures Circling?

On April 02, 2021, the Kansas City Star reported that an “outside group” spent $100K in the Kansas City (MO) School Board election in support of two contenders, locals Tanesha Ford and Kandace Buckener.

In the April 2021 KC board election, two other members were unopposed. Ford and Buckener were buoyed by $100K in mystery money funneled through Blaque independent expenditure committee. Since Blaque is not directly connected to the candidates it supports, the “non-committee” is not required to disclose to the public who, exactly, is funding its efforts.

Members of the KC public in support of traditional public schools are concerned that Blaque’s undisclosed money comes from school choice promoters, as the April 23, 2021, KCUR reports:

Advocates for the district are worried about money that poured into the school board election from school choice proponents — BLAQUE gets funding from SchoolSmart KC, which in turn gets money from the Kauffman and Hall foundations.

Based on the KCUR article, Ford and Buckener appear to be concerned about “student achievement,” which certainly involves the test scores upon which KC’s longstanding accreditation woes critically depend. Other components of Missouri CONTINUE READING: Kansas City Schools’ Accreditation Woes: Are the Philanthropic Vultures Circling? | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

Bill and Melinda Will Divorce, but the Gates Brand of Venture Philanthropy Will Continue On | janresseger

Bill and Melinda Will Divorce, but the Gates Brand of Venture Philanthropy Will Continue On | janresseger

Bill and Melinda Will Divorce, but the Gates Brand of Venture Philanthropy Will Continue On

A month ago, this blog suggested that hubris is at the heart of today’s billionaire philanthropy but noted that Bill and Melinda Gates have so much power that, despite the tragic blindness of their privilege, there will be no tragic fall and no consequences. Now, with Bill and Melinda announcing their divorce, we continue to learn even more about how privilege in an unequal America insulates the super-rich who have the power to drive the public policy that shapes the institutions on which we all depend

The Washington Post‘s Valerie Strauss seized the occasion of the Gates’ pending divorce as an opportunity to review the ways Bill and Melinda have used their influence and their money to shape public education policy at the federal level and across the states: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent billions of dollars on numerous education projects—such as creating small high schools, writing and implementing the Common Core State Standards, evaluating teachers by standardized test scores—and the couple has had enormous influence on what happened in classrooms across the country. Their philanthropy, especially in the school reform area, has been at the center of a national debate about whether it serves democracy when wealthy people can use their own money to drive public policy and fund their pet education projects. The foundation’s financial backing of some of the controversial priorities of the Obama administration’s Education Department put the couple at the center of this national conversation. Critics have said that many of the foundation’s key education CONTINUE READING: Bill and Melinda Will Divorce, but the Gates Brand of Venture Philanthropy Will Continue On | janresseger

This is the Moment Philanthropy Has Been Waiting For! | Schott Foundation for Public Education

This is the Moment Philanthropy Has Been Waiting For! | Schott Foundation for Public Education

This is the Moment Philanthropy Has Been Waiting For!

The time is now. For many of us in philanthropy, we have never seen a major policy expansion to support children and families on a scale that the president proposed last evening. But how did we arrive here, and how can philanthropy ensure more moments like this? 

It would be a mistake to only credit forward-thinking policymakers: the real leadership clearly came from grassroots social justice movements. Building on the tireless work of past generations, over the last several years these groups changed the entire political landscape, pushed new, visionary ideas to the fore, and organized the public to demand transformative change. A $15 minimum wage. Universal childcare and pre-K. Reducing student debt and increasing access to college. Guaranteed paid family leave. Their organizing put these policies on the agenda. Passing that agenda in Congress requires all of us to step up. 

This is a moment that embodies philanthropy’s business model for impact: employing our resources and leadership to leverage massive, transformative federal, state and local investments and policy changes. Simply stated, using private millions to yield public trillions.  

The Biden administration has already moved trillions through the American Rescue Plan to stimulate the economy. Now, the president proposes to make other “once-in-a-generation investments in America” through the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan. These multi-trillion-dollar packages are aimed at supporting low and middle-income families and children.  

What do you do when you have an opening like this? For foundations and philanthropic leaders, sitting on the sidelines shouldn’t be an option. These much-needed investments in American communities can either increase racial disparities or, with philanthropy-supported advocacy, implementation monitoring and local grassroots community power-building, they can CONTINUE READING: This is the Moment Philanthropy Has Been Waiting For! | Schott Foundation for Public Education

CURMUDGUCATION: Rules for Rural Philanthropy

CURMUDGUCATION: Rules for Rural Philanthropy

Rules for Rural Philanthropy

Juliet Squire is a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a reliably reformy part of the Fordham-AEI axis. She has traveled the Phillips Exeter-Yale-AEI career trajectory with a stop in the New Jersey Department of Education before landing at Bellwether, where she makes observations about education  that I pretty much always disagree with. 

But she also just released an article for AEI about philanthropy in rural communities, and speaking as someone who has lived his life in a rural community that periodically is afflicted by someone trying to do philanthropy to it, she's made some good observations here.

One of her three "key points" is really on the mark:

Place-based philanthropy is hard to do right. It requires philanthropies to shift their mindset from that of a benefactor to that of a partner committed to learning and working alongside local leaders.

This is fundamental. Do-gooders who sail into town with attitude of, "I'm here to bestow my wisdom and largesse on this bundle of hicks," are doomed to well-deserved failure. Squire goes on to offer CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Rules for Rural Philanthropy

Racial Equity and Justice in Education are "Drastically Underfunded," Research Finds | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Racial Equity and Justice in Education are "Drastically Underfunded," Research Finds | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Racial Equity and Justice in Education are "Drastically Underfunded," Research Finds

Just 0.8% of education philanthropy dollars were directed to racial justice from 2017 to 2019, according to research recently released by the Schott Foundation for Public Education and Candid. In an op-ed summarizing the results, the Schott Foundation’s Leah Austin and Edgar Villanueva calculated that “the philanthropic investment in racial justice works out to less than $2 per student.”

The Schott Foundation for Public Education describes itself as “a national public fund serving as a bridge between philanthropic partners and advocates.” The foundation’s mission is to build and strengthen a diverse movement in support of “fully resourced, quality Pre-K-12 public education,” and it is both outspoken and proactive in its support for communities of color, as IP has reported. In a recent op-ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Schott President and CEO John H. Jackson called on philanthropists to support a federal racial-equity stimulus. “We’re at an inflection point in history,” Jackson wrote. “With greater public awareness of the economic as well as human costs of systemic racism, now is the time for philanthropy to act boldly.”

From racial equity to racial justice

The Schott Foundation worked with Candid to determine precisely what fraction of education philanthropy goes to racial equity and to racial justice. To distinguish between the two, the foundation used the definitions offered in the influential 2019 report “Grantmaking With a Racial Justice Lens,” by the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE). (See IP’s past coverage of the report). 

“The PRE report advances the idea that racial equity is an important starting point, but racial justice evokes a higher standard,” said Leah Austin, Schott’s director of the National Opportunity to Learn Network, in a video presentation announcing the findings. “Racial equity in K-12 grantmaking addresses the achievement gap. Racial justice in K-12 grantmaking goes further to address the underlying opportunity gap.”

To illustrate the difference, Austin cited specific examples: Grants for racial bias training for teachers, mentoring programs for CONTINUE READING: Racial Equity and Justice in Education are "Drastically Underfunded," Research Finds | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Why Education Sector Philanthropy Must Embrace a Racial Justice Lens + Worcester Residents Push for School Police Removal | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Why Education Sector Philanthropy Must Embrace a Racial Justice Lens | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Why Education Sector Philanthropy Must Embrace a Racial Justice Lens

A defining theme of 2020 was the nationwide increase in grassroots activism. Across the country, people young and old took to the streets to challenge racial injustice. Whether it was in action on the climate crisis, or in demonstrations in response to fatal police shootings, communities have proven time and again that they care, they are connected, and they are a driving force for change. In the movement to ensure a future and nation that works for all, community organizers have emerged as the real MVPs.

While Black and Brown organizers have modeled extreme heroism and dedication, much of their work has occurred with limited or nonexistent financial support. They are fighting for justice, yet they do so without significant philanthropic investment.

The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s new research with Candid shows that in education, philanthropy drastically underfunds both racial equity and racial justice. In the three-year period from 2017 through 2019, education philanthropy—the second most popular issue for foundations—disbursed $14 billion, but just ten percent of that ($1.4 billion) went to racial equity, and less than one percent ($109 million) went to racial justice. There are 56.6 million K–12 students nationwide, which means the philanthropic investment in racial justice works out to less than $2 per student.

Racial equity and racial justice grants may look similar on their face, but they are different. Racial equity refers to grants designed to close the achievement gap that persists between racial groups. This includes support for programs like racial bias trainings for teachers or mentorship programs for Black and Brown students.

Racial justice refers to addressing the underlying systemic injustices that create these achievement gaps in the first place. Racial justice grants focus explicitly on empowering the people closest to the problem (families and students) as they organize in their communities to change the systems and structures that generate and reinforce racial injustice. Racial justice CONTINUE READING: Why Education Sector Philanthropy Must Embrace a Racial Justice Lens | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Worcester Residents Push for School Police Removal, Call for Faster Timelines and Community Input

Community members in Worcester, Massachusetts, including our grantee partner Worcester Interfaith and Schott's Programs & Advocacy Director Marianna Islam, are helping push city officials to take stronger steps against structural racism in the city. At the most recent city council meeting, residents voiced support for a report that recommends removing school resource officers from Worcester public schools, but urged a faster timeline and greater community oversight. This comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by a coalition including Worcester Interfaith claiming the city's school committee elections system discriminates against communities of color.

The Telegram & Gazette reports:

WORCESTER—The City Council Tuesday bumped to next week discussion of City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr.'s executive order on structural and institutional racism and accompanying recommendations, but that didn't stop many community members who called in to the virtual meeting from making their voices heard. 

Mayor Joseph M. Petty announced at the beginning of the meeting that the manager's report, which includes an executive order acknowledging the role structural and institutional racism have played and continues to play in the city, would be taken up at next week's meeting. 

The report includes recommendations to remove resource officers from schools and restructure how police interact with schools; to implement some form of alternative deployment that sends mental health and social workers on calls with police; and to establish a new investigations division at City Hall that would address both employee and resident complaints. 

Residents reacted to the executive order and the slate of recommendations with cautious optimism in some areas and CONTINUE READING: Worcester Residents Push for School Police Removal, Call for Faster Timelines and Community Input

#JusticeIsTheFoundation: New Data on Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding in Education Philanthropy | Schott Foundation for Public Education

#JusticeIsTheFoundation: New Data on Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding in Education Philanthropy | Schott Foundation for Public Education

#JusticeIsTheFoundation: New Data on Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding in Education Philanthropy

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Education is the second most-funded issue area in philanthropy. This is a broad category that includes capital campaigns for universities, measures of teacher effectiveness, and charter schools. How much of philanthropic funding is allocated to reduce inequities so that all students have fair access to a quality K-12 education? And how would we measure that with the data available? 

Funders Briefing: 
New Data on Racial Equity and Racial Justice Education Funding in Philanthropy

Thursday, February 25, 2021
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In this historical moment, many of us in philanthropy are shaping our grantmaking to better support systemic transformation and advance racial equity. Black and people-of-color led organizations have recently delivered substantial wins for racial equity in schools across the country — from reforming discipline to fighting for safer and healthier in-person learning. These wins underscore the critical opportunity to support grassroots movements who are on the front lines of advancing justice. To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how can funders help "bend the arc" toward racial justice in education?

The Schott Foundation for Public Education has worked with Candid over the past several months to critically examine the ultimate measure of education philanthropy's priorities: where the grant dollars go. For the first time, thanks to this joint effort, we can view this philanthropic sector with an equity and justice lens, telling the story of what we prioritize as a sector and revealing blind spots in our collective response. This data has deepened Schott's understanding, and we invite you to learn more and join us. You can view our findings here.

You'll learn from this conversation:

1. The state of racial equity and racial justice funding for the K-12 education sector
2. The impact that current funding is — and isn't — making to support transformational and systemic change
3. Clear action steps every funder can take to deepen your commitment to funding justice 

 
Speakers:

• Dr. John H. Jackson, President & CEO, Schott Foundation for Public Education
• Dr. Leah Austin, Director of the Opportunity to Learn Network, Schott Foundation for Public Education
• Letha Muhammad, Director, Education Justice Alliance
• Edgar Villanueva, Senior Vice President of Programs & Advocacy, Schott Foundation for Public Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education worked with Candid to critically examine the ultimate measure of education philanthropy's priorities: where the grant dollars go. For the first time, we can assess the collective philanthropic impact of giving in the education sector through a lens of racial equity and racial justice, telling the story of what we prioritize and revealing blind spots in our collective response.

Finding 1: Both Racial Equity and Racial Justice are Drastically Underfunded by Education Philanthropy

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Racial Equity and Racial Justice: What’s the Difference?

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For the purposes of our study, we took care to parse out grants that may look similar on the face, but actually have significant differences.

• Racial equity refers to grants designed to close the achievement gap that persists between racial groups. Grants for racial equity include support for programs such as racial bias trainings for teachers or mentorship programs for Black and brown students.
• Racial justice refers to grants designed to close the opportunity gap — the underlying systemic injustices that create the achievement gap in the first place. Racial justice grants focus explicitly on empowering people closest to the problem (families and students) organizing in their communities to change the systems and structures that generate and reinforce racial inequity. Racial justice grantmaking supports building community power, supporting policy change, engaging with policymakers, building partnerships with advocates to advance racial equity.

In short, racial equity grants address symptoms, while racial justice grants address root causes by strengthening the foundation, or bedrock, of efforts to achieve equity.

Here’s a sampling of the language used in grant descriptions that were considered “racial justice”:

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Finding 2: While the Need is Growing, Funding is Shrinking

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Funding data from 2011 to 2018, indicate that overall philanthropic giving increased dramatically, growing 48%. At the same time, the proportion of philanthropic dollars for K-12 education shrunk slightly, by 7%. Funding for racial equity and justice took a hammering, shrinking by 36% in the same interval.

Finding 3: Racial Justice Funding is Unevenly Distributed

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K-12 racial justice funding is concentrated in the Northeast. The majority of dollars, 63%, went to organizations based there. Only 16% went to those located in the South and 17% to those in the West. Meanwhile, 43% of all K-12 public school students of color are enrolled in the South and 29% in the West.

In some cases, the recipients of grants spend those resources in a different region — for example, the Schott Foundation is based in the Northeast but funds organizations across the country. However, the fact that so few grant recipients are located in the region with the plurality of students of color is a serious disproportionality that Schott will examine closely in future research.

What Can Be Done?

Movements for racial justice in education are growing in a moment when, due in large part to the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprisings for racial justice, the future direction of public education is more open to change than ever before. Now is our chance to re-imagine and make systemic changes in education that lay the foundation for equity of opportunity for children of color, if funders across the philanthropic spectrum invest now in racial justice in K-12 education. There’s never been a more pertinent time. 

For almost 30 years, the Schott Foundation has put the struggle for racial justice at the heart of our grantmaking strategy. In that time we’ve worked closely with other funders who are looking to shift their priorities in a similar direction.

We invite you to partner with us to make the critical investments needed to help move the arc of our nation’s public education system toward greater racial justice in the years ahead. Children of color, indeed our nation’s future, depend on it.

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Methodology

Click here to download a FAQ about the methodology used in researching the philanthropic data.

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#PhilanthropySoWhite: An Urgent Conversation on Whiteness in Philanthropy | Schott Foundation for Public Education

#PhilanthropySoWhite: An Urgent Conversation on Whiteness in Philanthropy | Schott Foundation for Public Education

#PhilanthropySoWhite: An Urgent Conversation on Whiteness in Philanthropy

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After more than two years of reckoning, uprising for racial justice, a pandemic, and a turbulent election — where do white leaders in the philanthropy sector find themselves and their leadership regarding racial justice in and outside of their organizations? Philanthropy remains so white, but progress has been made, and there have been some interesting learnings on the journey.

This one hour livestream event will be moderated by Schott Foundation's Senior Vice President Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth.

In 2018, Schott presented the original #PhilanthropySoWhite webinar. While its title raised eyebrows, the conversations that transpired were vulnerable, truth-speaking catalysts to sector-wide discussions about the urgent need to change philanthropy’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion. #PhilanthropySoWhite is also a call for white leaders to create anti-racist organizations and giving practices that are representative and inclusive of the communities and cultures they serve. 

Joining Edgar on the panel will be:

• Nick Donohue, President & CEO, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation 
• John Palfrey, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 
• Hilary Pennington, Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation 

Vanessa Daniel, Founder and Executive Director of the Groundswell Fund, will offer an end-of-session reflection and response to the discussion on confronting whiteness in philanthropy. 

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#PhilanthropySoWhite: An Urgent Conversation on Whiteness in Philanthropy | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Selling Edtech when Disguised as Philanthropy | tultican

Selling Edtech when Disguised as Philanthropy | tultican

Selling Edtech when Disguised as Philanthropy

By Thomas Ultican 11/27/2020

“Personalized learning” is being driven by foundations derived from companies that stand to profit by its implementation. Last year, George Mason’s Priscilla Regan and the University of Ottawa’s Valerie Steeves wrote the peer review paper “Education, privacy, and big data algorithms: Taking the persons out of personalized learning” in which they state, “Other than the Carnegie Corporation, the private foundations who have been most supportive of personalized learning are those supported by the technology companies, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Google Foundation.”

In the case of the Carnegie Corporation, the authors note that the philanthropy has been supporting education causes since its founding in 1911. Recently, Carnegie has given monetary support to “personalized learning” but “typically in partnership with one of the tech foundations.”

Based on a listing of the fifteen largest education spending philanthropies in the first decade of the millennium,  the paper’s authors selected the technology linked Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the largest donor); Michael and Susan Dell (fourth largest donor); and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (#8 in 2010) for analysis. They added two newer giving organizations, the Google Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to complete their list of five tech associated education grant making companies to analyze.

In their review of scholarly papers and the popular press, they identified five CONTINUE READING: Selling Edtech when Disguised as Philanthropy | tultican

CURMUDGUCATION: CT: Another Edu-phauxlanthropist Fails Hard

CURMUDGUCATION: CT: Another Edu-phauxlanthropist Fails Hard

CT: Another Edu-phauxlanthropist Fails Hard

It was just last fall that we were all talking about Ray and Barbara Dalio and their big plans for helping education in Connecticut. Now, less than a year later, the dream is dying an ugly public death.

In many ways, the Dalio's didn't look like the usual phauxlanthropic edu-dabblers.

He is a successful hedge fund manager and the richest guy in Connecticut. She immigrated from Spain fifty-ish years ago and worked at the Whitney before settling into the mom-and-kids track. He has announced that capitalism is not working, and that income gap is a huge national crisis. When she decided she was interested in working on education, she started visiting actual schools. After a start working with charters and Teach for America, she pulled away and started supporting public schools instead through her philanthropies and organizations like Connecticut RISE. Teachers, even union presidents, describe her as humble, a good listener, "truly a partner."

In the spring of 2019, the Dalios offered up $100 million to the public ed system, to be matched by the state and, maybe, other Rich Folks. It was supposeed to be aimed at students in under-resourced communities. Even the state teacher union president said that public-private partnerships usually stink, but this one smells rosy.

But that rosy aroma faded fast. Dalio, for all his noise about the failures of capitalism, still thinks CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: CT: Another Edu-phauxlanthropist Fails Hard