Suppose WalMart swept into Boston and spent millions to acquire Market Basket. The town would go ballistic. It would be covered every day in every media outlet, front page of the Boston Globe. But the Walton Family Foundation of Arkansas—the exact same heartless* mercenaries—spends millions of dollars to take over public schools and it gets…
Month: July 2021
Ugh. Another AstroTurf Fake Parents Group: Parents United
In a probably misguided and sadly irreversible decision five and a half years ago I started following the money behind AstroTurf education operations play acting as parent groups while fronting for billionaire privatizers. I’ve seen quite a few phony operations and the new right wing entry Parents United (not Massachusetts Parents United!) has a unique…