Charter Schools and the Walton Family


Wow! The Walton Family Foundation has “invested” over $385,000,000 in charter schools in the last 20 years, almost 25% of charter schools built during that time. I am not necessarily surprised that the owners of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are pro-charter schools, but the magnitude by which they are doing so is astounding. The family is already dominating the low-cost, we don’t pay our employees a fair wage food sector. So what does this “investment” in charter schools really mean? Read more of this article and you decide.

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/9/a-building-boom-for-charter-schools-is-coming-guess-whos-foo.html