Netflix Founder Drops $100 Million to Join Billionaire Crusade to Privatize Our Public Schools [View all]

[Ferd Berfel]

Just be aware when you pay your NEXFLIX bill you are supporting rightwingnuts trying to Privatize our schools.

http://www.alternet.org/education/netflix-founder-drops-100-join-billionaire-crusade-privatize-our-public-schools

The purses of the privatization movement are bursting with cash.

There’s more evidence that the push to privatize traditional public schools across America is a pet project of Silicon Valley’s billionaire boy’s club.

On Tuesday, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings announced on Facebook that he was creating a $100 million foundation to fund education, which mostly means bankrolling the charter school industry.

“I’m thrilled to announce that I’m funding a new $100m philanthropic fund for education, creatively named the Hastings Fund, through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation,” he wrote. “Neerav Kingsland is the CEO of this fund, and will donate these funds in the best way possible for kids’ education.