Tell Waltons to stop privatizing education
MoveOn
Apparently, the Waltons aren't satisfied with owning the largest low-wage employer in the country and being the richest family in the world.
They've also been working (and by "working" we mean "spending"
overtime to undermine America's K-12 education system.
A new report out today from Cashing in on Kids shows the Walton Family Foundation is spending billions to implement a hardcore ideological agenda of replacing public schools with a privatized system that will be open to exploitation by private corporations.
To put it succinctly, the Waltons are hell-bent on the "Walmartization" of public education.
In addition to the billions spent by the Walton Family Foundation in pursuit of this agenda, members of the Walton family have funneled millions of dollars to education-related ballot measures and politicians who back their agenda.
Stop the Walmartization of America's public schools.
Tell the Waltons to hold charter schools accountable.
Petition:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-walmart-heirs?source=c.em&r_by=12432247
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Privatizing education is an elitist, anti-education ideology. Charter schools are not an improvement -- studies prove it -- and they are frequently discriminatory against 'trouble' children, such as the disabled. They also disrupt neighborhood cohesion.