Sentences with phrase «wealthy foundations»

Imagine for a moment that you were approached by a very wealthy foundation, and they asked you to invest their money.

Parent Revolution is funded by the usual handful of wealthy foundations who spend billions experimenting with social engineering under the cloak of «education reform:»

UTLA president Alex Caputo - Pearl said the teachers union is planning an aggressive campaign to oppose Eli Broad and other wealthy foundation leaders who have announced plans for a major expansion of charter schools in LA Unified.

But that attempt failed, and it was orchestrated not by parents but by an outside organization: Parent Revolution, founded by charter school operator Steve Barr and funded by wealthy foundations.

The fix was in from the beginning with HVHF with vastly wealthy foundations like Park, Tides, William Penn and others funneling money to all the NY «non - profits».

Ms. Ravitch's basic idea is that the education bureaucrats, the politicians, and the heads of a group of fabulously wealthy foundations have cleaved to the latest fads and theories, most of which can be subsumed under the business model of public education.

Still wealthy foundations and individuals (who would never attend a public school) bankrolled much of the charter movement.

Here's one of the planet's most powerful bankers, posing as an environmental prize winner, calling on wealthy foundations to lavish billions on an industry for which he himself has a history of lobbying.

This has been invented and implemented by politicians, educational bureaucrats and wealthy foundations with the greatest of good wills and the most ardent and even the most altruistic of intentions.

Gates Targets Schools: Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates plan to broaden their commitment to K - 12 education, after having recently combined their two philanthropies into the nation's wealthiest foundation.

Another devastating chapter is on what Ms. Ravitch calls «The Billionaire Boys» Club,» meaning the wealthy foundations, like the Walton Family Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that have bought in to the business model and are pouring billions into it.

It was founded by charter school operator Steve Barr; is funded by an assortment of wealthy foundations; and functions with an entirely paid staff, including an executive director with no prior background in volunteer education advocacy.

She won't disclose her donors, but public records indicate that they include billionaire financiers and wealthy foundations.

The Sierra Club is swimming in money from affluent individuals, wealthy foundations, and blue chip companies.

Ron Arnold, author of Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant - Driven Green Groups, and Zealous Bureaucrats That Control Your Future, described the strategy to the Free Beacon: