Education Reform

Once strong policies are in place to allow parental choice, we support entrepreneurs who are creating high-quality schools.

To facilitate the establishment and expansion of new, high quality schools of choice, we invest in:

• School Startups – Promising groups starting or expanding schools of choice;
• Charter Management Organizations – Replication capacity of proven charter management organizations;
• School Leaders – Groups that train people to open and lead quality schools of choice; and
• Facilities Assistance and Financing – Groups that assist schools of choice with obtaining and financing facilities.

In order to facilitate the establishment and expansion of new, high-quality schools of choice, we invest in grantees such as:

• Public charter school governing boards;
• Charter School Growth Fund;
• Building Excellent Schools;
• KIPP;
• LISC;
• Building Hope; and
• Pacific Charter School Development.

A full list of our Create Quality Schools grantees can be found here: 2010 Walton Family Foundation Grants

The Walton Family Foundation expects grantees’ success to be seen in several ways, including:

• Increasing number of high-quality seats available to low-income parents;
• Lower per-seat cost of creating facilities; and
• Greater leveraging of our funding by grantees.