Power, Patronage and Problems: When Private Wealth Transforms Public Schools
Tiny Spark · Tiny Spark
September 9, 201615m 49s
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Show Notes
In the early 2000s, prominent philanthropists saw a big problem in America: a broken school system. They set out to fix it by funding in a charter school movement on a massive scale. Megan Tompkins-Stange has looked at the initiative and has uncovered myriad concerns and problems. She discusses this and her new book Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform and the Politics of Influence.