February 20, 2011
Walton’s Education Grants Seek to Spread Charter Schools
Courtesy of KIPP
KIPP and other charter schools, says Carrie Walton Penner, a Walton fund trustee, challenge the notion that poor kids can't learn unless they are lifted out of poverty.
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Courtesy of KIPP
KIPP and other charter schools, says Carrie Walton Penner, a Walton fund trustee, challenge the notion that poor kids can't learn unless they are lifted out of poverty.
No other philanthropy has done as much as the Walton Family Foundation to make charter schools a part of America’s education landscape.
Since the 1990s, the Bentonville, Ark., fund has been backing efforts to give low-income parents options for where to send their children to school.
The foundation has done so not only by helping to create charter schools (it has given money to about 1,200) and by supporting vouchers but also by paying for research on such efforts and
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