Mercedes Schneider, Teacher-researcher extraordinaire, has dug into state campaign finance files to track the spending of Walmart heiress and billionaire Alice Walton.
The Walton Family is extremely conservative. They despise unions, and they are contemptuous of punlic schools.
They favor charter schools, vouchers, and Teach for America, which provides the low-wage workers for their charter schools. They partner with Betsy DeVos’s voucher-loving American Federation for Children and also “Democrats for Education Reform,” which is charter-happy.
The Walton Family claims credit for financing one of every four charter schools in the nation.
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Thank you for sharing this post about Walton contributions to school deregulation! I live in Arkansas, where I briefly taught at one of Alice Walton’s pet charter schools: Arkansas Arts Academy. Here in AR, our current #1 high school is another Walton-backed charter school called Haas Hall. I have had such a bad taste in mouth after my experience teaching at arkansas Arts Academy that I’ve spent the past year researching and writing about the school situation here. Here’s the blog post I wrote yesterday, about Walton money and Haas Hall: https://link.medium.com/IEIkYCgxER
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