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December 17, 2013Bipartisan support fuels private school choice expansion; former Republican Governor and Democratic U.S. Senator validate efforts
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February 5, 2014Largest private funder of charter school startups supports the opening of roughly one in four charter schools in the nation since 1997.
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April 26, 2014Today’s profile of the Walton Family Foundation on the front page of The New York Times draws much-needed attention to our country’s most pressing issue: improving educational opportunity for the families and children who need it most.
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June 10, 2014The California Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles issued an historic decision in Vergara v. California, striking down five harmful provisions of the California Education Code as unconstitutional. According to the Court, the laws in question - laws that govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs - impose substantial harm on California's students by forcing administrators to push passionate, inspiring teachers out of the school system and keep grossly ineffective teachers in front of students year after year.
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August 14, 2014The Arkansas Board of Education on Thursday voted to establish a strategic partnership with the state’s two leading foundations committed to increasing educational attainment. Through the ForwARd initiative, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Walton Family Foundation will lead the development of a comprehensive plan to strengthen public education in the state targeted on recommendations for academically distressed schools and districts.
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August 20, 2014Investing in Home-Grown Vision to Produce World-Class Results
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October 2, 2014KIPP Delta Public Charter Schools announced today that it has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to fund a two-year pilot program to help prepare more students throughout the Delta for college.
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November 14, 2014Walton Family Foundation To Invest $1.2M to Expand Parent and Community Resources in New Orleans
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March 12, 2015Last year, the Walton Family Foundation moved forward with even greater intensity, focus and commitment to expanding opportunity for more people. Over the past two decades, our annual grant making has increased more than sevenfold from $50 million to more than $375 million last year. In 2014, we collaborated with more than 1,900 partners on initiatives across the U.S. and the world. If you could travel with me to our grantee communities, you would see schools that are providing transformative educational opportunities and preparing students for success in college and careers. You would see a riverbed that once was barren, now showing visible increases in vegetation thanks to a historic “pulse flow.” And you would see a father teaching his son to ride a bike on a new greenway trail, linking families and nature.
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July 23, 2015Bentonville, Northwest Arkansas Families to Benefit from World-Class Educational Option, Led by Dr. Clayton Marsh, Deputy Dean of the College at Princeton University