It
is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars
of their own money to help educate poor children. But some members of the
education establishment are taking a shot at it.
The
Walton Family Foundation — created by the people who created Walmart — has
given more than $300 million to charter schools, voucher programs and other
educational enterprises concerned with the education of poor and minority
students across the country.
The
Walton Family Foundation gave more than $58 million to the KIPP schools, which
have had spectacular success in raising the test scores of children in ghettoes
where the other children are far behind in academic performance.
D.C.
Prep, in Washington, whose students are mostly poor and black, has also received
grants from the Walton Family Foundation. Its test scores likewise exceed those
of traditional neighborhood schools, as well as the test scores of other local
charter schools. Other wealthy people across the country have been doing
similar things for years, including high-tech tycoons like Bill Gates and
Michael Dell. It is one of the great untold stories of a unique pattern of
philanthropy that makes America truly exceptional.
Yet
these philanthropists have been attacked by the teachers’ unions and by others
in the education establishment, including academics…..To Read More…..
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