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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really happy the Hillsdale College - Anna Julia Cooper - didn't get approved.

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+1.
That weird subversive Hillsdale/DeVos stuff was no  good[/quote]

Why not?  I thought charter people loved right wing funding.[/quote]

They only love it if they can pretend they aren't getting it.  It was a woefully clueless application![/quote]

There is not a single high-performing charter in DC (except BASIS) that has not at one time accepted funds, particularly start-up funds, from a conservative foundation or an org that takes its money from conservatives, such as the New School Venture fund, for example. [/quote]

[b]The New School Venture fund isn’t very politically active.[/b]
It’s not the Walton or Bradley Foundations, or a DeVos, Koch, Heritage affiliated group that wants to destroy public education for political ends.

A school like Mundo that took startup money from NSVF to get going and they’re now doing good work in the city.  I don’t begrudge Mundo that.  But we should avoid Walton and Hillsdale influencing DC.[/quote]

New School Venture Fund - $5+ million from each of these foundations (full list of major donors here: https://www.newschools.org/about-us/team/donors/)
Laura & John Arnold Foundation
The Broad Foundation
The Byers Family
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chan Zuckerberg Foundation
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
John & Ann Doerr
Doris & Donald Fisher Fund
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Robertson Foundation
And others at lower levels

Nat'l Alliance for Charter Schools (for example, Latin said they are supporting its expansion; has funded other DC charters) https://www.publiccharters.org/our-work/what-we-stand-for/funders
Its donors are: 
Gates Foundation
Eli and Edythe Broad
Walton Foundation
Doris and Donald Fisher
Walton Family Foundation
and others
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