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'Waltons'

Signatures filed on Walton-financed drive for Benton County alcohol sales

The Walton grandson-backed drive to allow retail alcohol sales in Benton County is making progress.
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Friday night line

Let's fly. The reader line is open.
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How education 'reform' is being accomplished

Great article from Dissent on how the billionaires are achieving education "reform." By buying politicians and research institutions.

UA to give Alice Walton honorary degree

The University of Arkansas will give Alice Walton an honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters during spring commencement, the school announced today.
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Waltons could buy a third of U.S. population

Salon reports on an economist's analysis of the wealth of the Walton family. It puts it terms you can understand.

New study: Charter schools again fail to excel

The Billionaire Boys Club has sold the credulous on the notion that if you hang a charter school label on a school it follows that it MUST be better than a conventional public school.
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Coming soon to a school board near you — the takeover

Chilling story from Denver that is emblematic of the Republican and billionaire effort to take over public school districts as a step toward corporatizing and voucherizing and charterizing them.

How the rich buy elections

Columbia Journalism Review has a good summary of new reporting by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker about Art Pope, a North Carolina multi-millionaire — aided by the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court and careful manipulation of rules governing nonprofits — has all but taken control of that important swing state's politics.
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Chamber cheerleading the charter movement

Propaganda party touted here by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which has served for some time as an enabler of messaging about the alleged waste of money that is the Little Rock School District.

Walton Foundation gives $1.2 billion to Crystal Bridges

The Walton Family Foundation announced today that it had given an additional $403 million this year to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville for acquisitions, construction costs and other expenses.
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The Thursday night line

Market crashes. President Obama throws in with the Waltons and other billionaires on education.

Walton money takes over Wisconsin

A report from Wisconsin on the state of affairs in that Tea Party Republican-controlled state: The Republican governor and legislator are cutting spending on public schools by $800 million, but increasing the amount sent to private schools by $17 million.
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