Please open this link and read the statement signed by 174 organizations worldwide, calling on investors to stop supporting the for-profit Bridge International Academies.
BIA is encouraging impoverished nations to outsource their schools, thus abandoning their responsibility for funding a free and universal system of public education.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Amnesty International signed? Wow! Nice.
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Sad how few U.S. organizations are on the list. Kudos to NPE.
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Agree, Dienne.
Pray tell, where is Stand for Children? Students First?
Oh, right, perhaps they’re just FOR children in the U.S. (Sarcasm, of course.)
Copy kudos to N.P.E.
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Good to see Network for Public Education. Too bad that there are not more US organizations supporting this. May are likely to captives of the same profiteers who are chasing profits in Africa. I am thinking of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with massive contributions to NAACP and historically black colleges.
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When will 174 call on investors to stop the charter schools in America?
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Bridge welcomes the recognition from the 174 signatories of this statement that investors in Bridge are genuinely concerned about children in poverty, and that they have acknowledged the need for significant improvements in education across many low and middle-income countries.
You can read our full response here: http://www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Bridge-Response-to-Global-Initiative-2-August-2017_FINAL.pdf
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