is backed by this group. They are supported by Wall Street, the Walmart family, and the organization has refused to say who donates to it.
Families for Excellent Schools formed in 2011. Four of its five founding board members are Wall Street players, including Paul Appelbaum, an investor who is the principal at Rock Ventures LLC, and Bryan Lawrence, who runs an investment firm and has years experience with charters. Two of the board members did donate to De Blasio's campaign committee.
Financial sector leaders have long been some of the biggest supporters of the charter-school movement. That’s a fact that has been red meat for charter school opponents.
“They crashed our economy. They crashed New York City. We were at a standstill for a very long time economically here. And now we’re going to trust them with our students? That seems preposterous for me,” said Natasha Capers, a parent leader at the Alliance for Quality Education.
The Alliance—a teachers-union backed nonprofit that supports traditional public schools—attacked the pro-charter ads shortly after they started airing. Capers said she wanted to know why the charter schools need free space from the city if the movement has so many wealthy backers.
The Walton Family Foundation, of Walmart fame, has given more than $700,000 over the past two years. That foundation recently hired a deputy schools chancellor from the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Families for Excellent Schools shares an address with the New York arm of StudentsFirst, a national education reform nonprofit led by Michelle Rhee, the former Washington D.C. schools chancellor.
Kittredge declined to discuss his organization’s funding.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/behind-pro-charter-school-group-fighting-de-blasio/
The Bill Gates foundation donates to this group, which is not a legit group. Go to this website and click on the Families for Excellent Schools and read. http://greatschoolsforamerica.org/donors.php?donor_id=000006
The only thing to blame for American students doing poorly, is American society. American society. Not, teachers, not curriculum, not testing or lack of it, but American society. American society is shattered.
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