The Walton Family is collectively worth more than $150 billion, and their hobby is undermining and disrupting public schools across the nation. Since Louisiana has an election for the state board of education in a few days, you will not be surprised to learn that Jim and Alice Walton dropped $200,000 on candidates pledged to support charter schools, vouchers, and Teach for America.
Mercedes Schneider reports in this post that the Waltons waited until close to Election Day so that Louisianans would not have time to learn that out-of-State billionaires were trying to buy the state board elections.
The Waltons are determined to harm the public schools that educated their father Sam Walton and most of them.
The family belongs on the blog’s Wall of Shame for their ceaseless attacks on public schools, unions, experienced teachers, and communities.
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It’s up at Oped! With acomment with links to articles by Jan Resseger, Carol Burris and Valerie Straus
Didn’t the Waltons already get everything they want in Louisiana? They have a whole privatized city, their hand-picked education chief, vouchers galore, endless charters, and every test that comes down the pike. And the schools are horribly underfunded, which is the other requirement. It’s the ed reform poster child.
They have to rule absolutely? No room at all for any dissent of any kind?
when “rule” means only one thing: profit
New Orleans is the pinnacle of their plan for all of America.
Keep ’em dumb, pregnant, and subservient. It’s the American republican/conservative way!!!
Well, THIS is very collaborative, I must say:
“In the spirit of CRIKT, I see at least four major strategic challenges facing education improvement in this country, the acronym for which is a bit tongue-in-cheeky: CUSS. Granted, some of our challenges are more technical in nature, like the nuts and bolts of recruiting good teachers or implementing strong instructional materials. However, all of this is made harder than it should be by the CUSS groups.”
It’s the ed reform enemies list. On it are those dastardly SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS who refuse to listen to their betters!
America’s enemies. The local people who run and serve on school boards.
Just nuts. Our longest serving school board member runs an excavation company. I can’t wait to tell him he’s the enemy they must vanquish to reach total control and obedience. Ours aren’t even paid. If he’s “self interested” he’s doing it wrong.
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-crikt-cuss
Well, let’s cancel billionaires, shall we?
A growing body of economic and political-science research demonstrates that Gilded Age–type inequality does not just mean having too many with too little. It is warping the very social fabric of the country, stifling mobility, innovation, investment, and growth, and putting the country at political risk.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/cancel-billionaires/599587/
The Louisiana Purchase?
LOL! The 2019 version.