By Mike DeGuire
Education historian and former charter school supporter NPE President Diane Ravitch, describes how this project to turn “America’s public schools into privately managed charters with minimal regulation has been advanced with funding from the billionaire DeVos and Koch families, and also from billionaire charter school supporters like Bill Gates, Reed Hastings, John Arnold, the Bradley Foundation, Eli Broad, the Walton family, Michael Bloomberg, and the Wall Street hedge fund managers who are part of a privatization group called Democrats for Education Reform. These individuals and groups contribute to state legislators and local school board candidates who favor school choice, as well as directly funding school choice organizations.”
You can read Mike’s piece in the Colorado Times Recorder here.