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Title: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 03, 2011, 03:30:39 PM
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roxiejules (1000+ posts)      Wed Aug-03-11 07:10 PM
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Keeping Track of Walton $$$
 The right-wing, anti-union Walton Family Foundation invested $157,220,283 in corporate-style school reform in 2010. The biggest beneficiary was Teach For America, raking in more than $16 million. KIPP got $8.6 million.

Press Release: Walton Family Foundation Invests $157 Million in K-12 Education Reform in 2010

h/t: Schooling in the Ownership Society

"Ownership society" ?!?!

I don't want to be owned by society.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1654728
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: thundley4 on August 03, 2011, 03:38:46 PM
I don't know what their problem is with Teach for America, but the DUmmies really hate that group. 
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: Karin on August 03, 2011, 03:47:43 PM
Thundley, their website says
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Teach For America is growing the movement of leaders who work to ensure that kids growing up in poverty get an excellent education.

I have no idea why they'd be so against this group.  Something to do with unions, must be. 
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: thundley4 on August 03, 2011, 03:53:46 PM
Quote from: Karin on August 03, 2011, 03:47:43 PM
Thundley, their website says
I have no idea why they'd be so against this group.  Something to do with unions, must be. 


It's definitely union related.  I've seen enough threads to know that, but it's also because the DUmmies are racists.  TFA requires that all their teachers spend at least two years in the worst school districts.
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: Skul on August 03, 2011, 04:03:10 PM
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Teach For America is growing the movement of leaders who work to ensure that kids growing up in poverty get an excellent education.
The other reason.
Perhaps kids with an excellent education, tend to vote...Republican.
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: jukin on August 03, 2011, 04:34:43 PM
Results never matter. If results are good but done by a conservative it is all BAD!!!!1111!!!!eleventy If results are horrendous but done by a leftist commie it is all good!!!1111!!!eleventy.

I am beginning to think that the DUches are correct in that there are too many people.. I could see eliminating 20% of them and making humanity all the better.
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on August 03, 2011, 07:21:34 PM
Quote from: Karin on August 03, 2011, 03:47:43 PM
Thundley, their website says
I have no idea why they'd be so against this group.  Something to do with unions, must be. 

I think it has something to do with getting people out of poverty.  Any organization that seriously wants to get people out of policy could threaten the Democratic party.  If people are self-sufficient, they have less use for some politician promising to give them everything.
Title: Re: $157MN spent, $16MN gained = "raking in" the profits
Post by: Karin on August 04, 2011, 08:25:02 AM
From MadFloridian's journal:

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Teach for America students take low, entrance-level pay while also receiving a government subsidy for their salary in the form of Americorps stipends. Schools lay off teachers and then hire Teach for America teachers to fill positions that real teachers would otherwise be filling. Teach for America teachers are undercutting the wage needs of real teachers and causing them to be laid off as a result.


Pure, unadulterated greed.  That simple.