Pro-Charter Forces Now over $8M
Kind of takes your breath away. Of course, it isn't like the donors are any big surprise. There's: Bill Gates - he's thrown in another $2M (he's at about $3M but that doesn't count the money he threw to get 1240 on the ballot) Alice Walton (of Wal-Mart) - must really love charters in Arkansas and Texas because she put in another $1.1M (that makes about $1.7M altogether) A U.S. congressman from Colorado, Jared Polis DeShaw - --> "a global investment and technology development firm" An interesting couple, Anne Dinning and Michael Wolf , from NYC who have helped create Turnaround for Children, a non-profit that helps low-performing schools with high-needs students (wonder if they help all those low-performing charters). What's interesting is here's a page from an investment firm, New Profit, inc., that shows Turnaround for Children's "performance." You'll note that the number of children they serve h...