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[quote=Anonymous]The study is supported by the Walton Family Foundations.

p 47: “Support for this publication was generously provided by the Walton Family Foundation.  Brookings recognizes that the value it provides is in its absolute commitment to quality, independence, and impact. Activities supported by its donors reflect this commitment.

That is, in a word, garbage.  I do believe the authors are totally independent of the Waltons and their anti-public-school, anti-white parent efforts.  (Demonizing White parents is a good way to harm public school systems and siphon off money to rich people, and Walton knows that.)

But just the fact that Walton was able to select and fund this project is distorting.  Walton, for example, didn’t choose to fund an analysis of how charter schools open and close quickly in DC and leave vulnerable students high and dry.  
[b]Program choices create bias.[/b]

Brookings is doing DC parents a great disservice by taking money from Walton to study a topic they know that amplifying will be divisive and harmful to DCPS.

Bad look, Brookings. Take your dirty money elsewhere, Waltons.[/quote]

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