{"id":468,"date":"2012-09-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/walton-family-foundation-granted-105-million-towards-ga-charter-schools-in-2011.html"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"walton-family-foundation-granted-105-million-towards-ga-charter-schools-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/walton-family-foundation-granted-105-million-towards-ga-charter-schools-in-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Walton Family Foundation granted $1.05 million towards GA charter schools in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe total amount of Walton family affiliate money backing the Georgia\ncharter school referendum is far larger than\n\nAlice Walton’s $250,000.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the Walton Family Foundation’s list of\n\n2011 Education Reform Grants<\/a>,\nthere are two Georgia organizations:\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n
\nGeorgia Charter Schools Association Inc. <\/td>\n700,000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nGeorgia Family Education and Research Council, Inc. <\/td>\n350,000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nGCSA has\n\nmade the news<\/a> quite a bit lately,\n\n<\/a>\nand its name makes its purpose pretty clear.\nAccording to\n\nthe National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA),<\/a>\nGCSA is a NACSA member.\nYou remember NACSA,\n\nthe organization that Zaid Jilani\ndiscovered was an ALEC member, and that bailed out of\nALEC two days later.<\/a>\nThat was in May 2012, after<\/em> the Georgia legislature\npassed the bill putting the charter school referendum on the ballot.\n<\/p>\n

\nGeorgia Family Education and Research Council, Inc. (GFERC)\nis slightly less obvious. According\n\n\n\n<\/a>\nto\n\nManta.com<\/a>\nGFERC has apparently shortened its name to Georgia Family Council.\nGFC’s website includes this item from 20 March 2012\n\nLegislature Passes Charter School Constitutional Amendment!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThanks to everyone who supported this important school choice effort\nby contacting their legislators, rallying at the Capitol, and\nvisiting their legislators.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThat makes GFC’s position pretty clear.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo the total invested by Walton family affiliates in organizations\nthat are backing the charter school amendment is apparently\nat least\n\nAlice Walton’s $250,000<\/a>\nplus the Walton Family Foundation’s $700,000 to GCSA\nand $350,000 to the Georgia Family Council,\nfor at least $1.3 million.\nAt least, because there may be others in that Walton Family Foundation\nlist that don’t have Georgia in their name.\nThat’s at least $1.3 million towards letting an unappointed\nboard in Atlanta privatize our public schools\nand\n\nspend our local tax dollars<\/a>\nto pay\n\nmore per student to charter schools than to public schools.<\/a>\nWith much of that $1.3 million\n\nin the hands of many of the same people who pushed the T-SPLOST tax\non the July primary ballot.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho would you rather have controling your public school tax dollars:\nWal-Mart heirs, or your local school boards?\nVote No on the charter school amendment in November.\n<\/p>\n

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