The Walton Family Foundation has poured hundreds of millions, possibly billions, into privatizing America’s schools via charter schools. It recently announced that it would add another $100 million, in alliance with the PNC bank, to enable charters to grow.
The curious aspect of Walton’s devotion to charter schools is its complete indifference to the failures, poor performance, scandals, and frequent closures of charters.
Clearly the foundation has a goal that is unrelated to performance or success. The funders criticize public schools for poor performance, but in many states, the public schools outperform the charter schools. Nonetheless, Walton keeps pouring in more money.
Its goal seems clear: not to provide better opportunities for kids, but to undermine and disrupt public schools.
If they cared about students, the Waltons would pour hundreds of millions into improving public schools, which enroll 85-90% of American students.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It’s not about improving education for anyone, at any level, public or private. The tactics are the standard operating procedures of any corporate takeover, the only difference being the need to maintain the flow of taxpayer cash into the target enterprise. Charter operators are just another form of shell corporations used as tools to carry out the corporate raids.
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“corporate takeover.” YES.
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There is a video called ‘the high price of low cost’ (or similar) – the story of how Walmart has devastated so many small towns all over America. Corruption just has to have plaid a major role.
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This donation is a tax write-off for the Waltons. It will promote more privatization and undermining of the public schools most students attend. It pathetic that we continue to cater to the unvetted whims of billionaires instead of defending public schools from often unneeded, unaccountable charter school expansion while charters simultaneously pick the bones of public schools.
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Money walks and bs talks!
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PNC and the Waltons go way back, working closely with the Bushes, the Clintons, and Gore. They are originators of fascist education corporatization. Their goal is to monetize everyone they see as welfare queens, which means everyone who receives anything from any public services, including education, welfare, Social Security, and Medicare. They intend to make everyone fight for scraps from private investment firms by working 80 hour weeks for peanuts. They ruined lives forty years ago, they ruin lives today, and they will continue to ruin lives for the foreseeable future. Pure evil. The worst of the worst.
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AThe Walton’s are the Queens of the Welfare Queens.
They pay their workers so little that many of them need to be on food stamps and other public assistance.
It essentially amounts to billions of dollars in public subsidies to Walmart every year.
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A selective enrollment school in Chicago, run by CPS, is in the news today. Allegedly, the initial and follow up responses of the principal, Dr. Joseph Powers, to a Halloween costume parade on campus, were critically wrong.
Selective enrollment schools should not receive tax funding nor, should for-profits.
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