CMD NEWS ABOUT Education

• Kochs’ Dark-Money Network Bankrolls Campus “Free Speech” Group

  By David Armiak and Ralph Wilson | June 11th, 2019 at 10:50 AM (CST)

  Speech First may look like a student group, but its staff and PR firm are paid for by the Koch operation’s DonorsTrust.

• ALEC Teams up with Anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom to Promote So-Called “Campus Free Speech” Bills

  By David Armiak | May 6th, 2019 at 5:14 PM (CST)

  The noted hate group is also a dues-paying member of ALEC, CMD has found.

• American Federation of Teachers Targets Mass Incarceration, Private Prison Profiteers

  By Mary Bottari | February 5th, 2019 at 3:01 PM (CST)

  2.7 million school children have an incarcerated parent.

• Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents

  By Maxwell Abbott | January 30th, 2019 at 9:44 AM (CST)

  Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.

• Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private

  By ExposedByCMD Editors | December 18th, 2018 at 1:57 PM (CST)

  Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.