Mercedes Schneider discovered that Oregon-based Stand for Children is pouring money into school board races in Louisiana. Why should an Oregon organization try to choose school board elections in another state? That’s the way the Disruption Movement works. The funding comes from the usual sources, none of which is based in Louisiana.
She writes:
Since 2012, hundreds of thousands of dollars has flowed into Louisiana elections from this Portland, Oregon, ed-reform organization, and when I examined the campaign finance filings for these three PACs, I discovered only two Louisiana contributors to one of the PACs, the Stand for Children LA PAC…
SFC is anti-union, pro-Common Core, pro-school choice—usual corporate-ed-reform fare. As for some of its major money: Since 2010, the Walton Family Foundation has funded SFC (via the SFC Leadership Center) $4.1M, with $400,000 specifically earmarked for Louisiana.
Then, there’s the Gates funding…
It all sounds so locally-driven, so grass-rootsy.
It’s probably best to not mention that SFC in Oregon finances the show.
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
it’s up at OPEd https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Stand-for-Children-Using-in-General_News-Fraud-190928-47.html
with this comment, which has links at the page
Make no mistke about this. Privitizing education is exactly like the way that health care was privatized. Hidden by the fact that it is being done, bit by bit, across 50 states and 15,880 school systems.
look what Diane Ravitch reports: “The Perfect Storm [Disaster] of Education Reform”
Jeff Bryant: How Sharp Operators Fleece School Districts of Millions
Bob Braun: The Political Machine That Is Taking Over Newark’s School Board
Indianapolis: The Purpose of School Choice is to Destroy Communities, Which Endangers Us All
Amy Frogge: How Edupreneurs Took Nashville for a Ride
Denver: Insurgents Hope to Oust Billionaire-Backed School Board Majority
Wisconsin: Parents Outraged That DeVos Is Selling Vouchers to Them
Note to Rhode Island Officials: Expanding “Achievement First” Charters Will Not Help Providence Public Schools
and on and on
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The ultra-wealthy that fund these faux organizations with misleading titles are no better than the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS, but they are not real Christians or Muslims.
They are parasites of a different kind that feed off the rest of us that are not wealthy.
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The parasites concentrated wealth to the point that middle class demand can’t sustain their excess so, they feed off of the children of labor and their communities.
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“feed off of” — three exact words
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