Sentences with phrase «by billionaire eli»

Harries received his «superintendent training» as a member of the 2009 class of the Broad Academy, the corporate education reform foundation that is funded by billionaire Eli Broad who is one of the three largest donors behind the education reform movement, along with Bill Gates and the Walton Family of Wal - Mart fame.

In addition to their connection with Gary Solomon's company, both Garth Harries and Steven Adamowski «graduated» from the Broad Academy, a corporate education reform training camp funded by billionaire Eli Broad, whose foundation is one of the three biggest funders of the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

Philadelphia Schools Supt. William Hite is, like Chicago's Barbara Byrd Bennett, a product of the Broad Superintendents Academy, one of the many anti-union activities financed by billionaire Eli Broad.

The recent case, Doe v. Deasy, was filed in 2010 by several students in the district and sponsored by EdVoice, the nonprofit education reform group backed by billionaire Eli Broad, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Richard Merkin, CEO of the Heritage Provider Network, among others.

The exposure of the secret plan by billionaire Eli Broad's Foundation to expand charters so that half of Los Angeles students would attend them, drew outrage and national attention.

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It lists Heartland Institute donors, from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation (established by Koch Industries billionaire Charles G. Koch), to Philip Morris parent company Altria, to software giant Microsoft and pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.

Teach for America's major donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation, run by the heirs to the Walmart fortune; the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, run by the real estate billionaire and Democratic donor; and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, where hedge - fund dollars are used to support causes ranging from criminal justice reform to reducing the costs of public pensions (including those held by veteran teachers).

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

As the debate about the value of charters is heating up to new levels since the news that billionaire school reform leader Eli Broad and several other powerful players are planning a massive expansion of charter schools in LA Unified, these numbers are likely to be spun in both directions by the opposing sides of the charter debate.

Eli Broad, founder of the Academy, is one of the «Billionaire Boys» (as Diane Ravich refers to them — a small group of uber - successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, John Walton, Eli Broad, etc.) By most accounts (including his own), Roosevelt has made significant progress in Pittsburg.

In the Los Angeles school board race, the charter advocates have outspent the unions by roughly a third, with significant money coming from billionaire - donors like Eli Broad, Michael Bloomberg, Walmart heirs Alice and Jim Walton, Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

Billionaire Democrat and philanthropic venture capitalist, Eli Broad is invited by President Bill Clinton to spend the night at the White House.

He is chair of the Broad Center, which is funded by Los Angeles billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad to train and place school superintendents who've been recruited not only from the education sector but also from leadership positions in government, the military, and corporations.

Myrna Castrejon, 50, is leaving her position as a lobbyist and strategist for the California Charter Schools Association to lead Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit organization established to carry out the charter expansion strategy, which was first developed by billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and his foundation.

He's involved with the Broad Center, funded by L.A. billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, which aims (among its other projects) to train and place reform - minded superintendents in the education sector.

What a sham that an unelected crew of the Waltons, Bill Gates, and Eli Broad are allowed to legally dictate how we educate our children by trumping the locally driven democratic process — our votes are meaningless as the billionaires carry more weight.

Rickels is not a MOCA trustee, but a couple of museum trustees did step up and make donations last year, including CAA agent Beth Swofford, who donated drawings by RIchard Prince and Matthew Monahan, and billionaire Eli Broad, who with his wife, Edythe, donated a painting by Bill Jensen among other works.

MOCA L.A. has faced a series of challenges since 2008, when the museum's flagging bank balance required a $ 30 million bailout by billionaire patron Eli Broad.

The partnership idea was initiated by MOCA board member Eli Broad, the billionaire collector who is opening his own art museum downtown in 2014, across the street from MOCA.

This past Sunday, the personal post-war and contemporary art collection owned by billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, housed in Diller Scofidio + Renfro's meshed white box, opened for public...

Gagosian, whose billionaire clients include Eli Broad, has a gallery on North Camden Drive in Beverly Hills; its current show featuring 14 early sculptures by the late Anthony Caro opened April 17.