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How Walton Foundation spent $157 million on ed reform (in D.C. and other places)
- 06-29-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
The city that won the most education grant money from the Walton Family Foundation in 2010 was Washington D.C., according to new figures that showed how $157 million was distributed. The foundation is one of the three big family education philanthropies — the other two being the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation,— and the one that gives the most money to initiatives involving the school choice movement such as vouchers and charter schools. The three are leaders of what education historian Diane Ravitch termed “the billionaire boy’s club” (in her best-selling book The Death and Life of the Great American School System ) because they are run by the super-wealthy who promote the privatization of public education and high-stakes standardized testing as the school reform solutions. The money these foundations pour into public education has an important effect on the shape of education reform, which some critics say is undemocratic because the priorities are selected by wealthy businessmen who want to support their own pet projects. (more...)
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