Maurice Cunningham, a retired professor of political science and an expert on dark money in education elections, prepared A CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO SCHOOL PRIVATIZATION.
It is posted on the website of the Network for Public Education.
It is a glossary of the organizations and individuals who lead the effort to privatize education.
Please open the guide and see if you have names and groups to add. The GUIDE is meant to be built on the foundation created by Cunningham. Please send your suggestions. Are there groups active in your community that were not included? Send them to the Carol Burris at the Network for Public Education.
cburris@networkforpubliceducation.org.
Carol will forward your tips to Maurice Cunningham for review and possible inclusion.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I was going to propose adding San Francisco’s Doris and Donald Fisher Fund, but Google tells me it’s “permanently closed.” The Fishers are the founders of the Gap clothing stores, and they were such a major supporter of the KIPP charter chain that KIPP is nominally headquartered in San Francisco, though its soul is in Houston. (KIPP’s culture is very much at odds with San Francisco’s culture, so though they have a couple of schools in San Francisco, they lie low and don’t trumpet their supposed wonderfulness they way they do in other locales.)
Don Fisher was also a funder and supporter of Edison Schools, the onetime media darling for-profit charter chain that was hailed as a miracle back in 2001 and has now long since fizzled (its former cheerleaders now pretend they never heard of such a thing). Former San Francisco school board member Jill Wynns was an early critic of Edison, shedding light on its many tricks and lies, and Don Fisher once summoned her to a private meeting to tell her he’d make sure she’d never be elected to office again. Actually she was re-elected several times and is the longest-serving school board member in San Francisco history.
Wow, is this a gushy piece of hype about Don Fisher. Now we know that whatever Philanthropy Roundtable is, it has zero credibility. https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/hall-of-fame/don-fisher/
Philanthropy Roundtable is the rightwing response to foundations like Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie. It should never be confused with a politically neutral organization. It publishes a handbook for its members advising them where to send money. The handbook consists of charter chains, charter advocacy groups, TFA, and the myriad world of privatizers.
Not entirely zero credibility-
Philanthropy Roundtable interviewed Stanford grad, Kim Smith, who co-founded the Gates-funded New Schools Venture Fund, TFA, Aspen’s Pahara, and Bellwether. She identified the goal of charter organizations- large scale brands.
The second largest district in the country can’t get through an election for school board without interference from Reed Hastings of Netflix and the real estate mogul Bill Bloomfield. https://jacobin.com/2022/10/los-angeles-school-board-elections-donors-political-machine