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I read an account of this “grassroots protest” in another news source that hadn’t bothered to examine who funded the black t-shirts everyone was wearing or the distinction between generic “charter schools” and charter schools that are “subject to the same transparency and accountability requirements as traditional public schools.” Ms. Warren’s opposition, like that of the NAACP, is to privatized public schools that benefit their shareholders more than they benefit students:

“We have a responsibility to provide great neighborhood schools for every student,” Warren wrote in her plan last month. “We should stop the diversion of public dollars from traditional public schools… We should fight back against the privatization, corporatization, and profiteering in our nation’s schools.”

Under the senator’s proposal, new for-profit charter schools would be banned from opening, and the IRS would be directed to investigate charter schools that operate as non-profits to ensure they don’t actually benefit for-profit interests.

Warren supports the NAACP’s proposal to allow only public school districts to authorize charter schools and would require that charter schools are “subject to the same transparency and accountability requirements as traditional public schools.”

As Common Dreams notes at the end of this article, the schools attended by the protesters would not be affected “unless they were fraudulent or for-profit.”  

And why would the Waltons be funding a protest of this kind?

One critic of the protest’s funders proposed one reason why the Waltons bankrolled the demonstration: Warren’s pledge to attack wealth inequality by imposing new taxes on the richest Americans.

Or… stated bluntly: ka-ching $$$$$$

Source: Billionaire Walton Family Behind Pro-Charter School Protest at Warren Rally