Follow the money. Donors to Marshal Tucks campaign that have donated more than a $100,000: - Doris Fisher, co-founder of GAP Inc. and a major donor to KIPP, the nation’s largest charter organization; - Michael Bloomberg, whose priorities as New York City mayor included school reform and charter school expansion; - Arthur Rock, an early Silicon Valley investor and a funder of the charter school network Rocketship Education; - Carrie Penner, an heir to the Wal-Mart family fortune and vice chair of the California Charter Schools Association; - Alice Walton, from Mineral Wells, Texas, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a Walton Family Foundation board member; - Cyrus Hadidi, a partner in the Los Angeles investment firm JMB Capital, and a board member of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, the schools that Tuck ran before running for state superintendent; - Susan Chamberlin, an architect who co-founded Chamberlin Associates and the Chamberlin Family Foundation, which funds projects in the West Contra Costa Unified School District as well as Teach For America and charter organizations; - Eli Broad, founder of The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation and supporter of reform efforts in Los Angeles, including the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools; - William Bloomfield, a retired business executive; - Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and co-founder of College Track, a nonprofit in a half-dozen cities that helps minority kids get into college; - Julian Robertson, a retired hedge fund manager from New York who formed the Robertson Foundation, which funds public school reform, including charter schools and voucher programs, that serve “disadvantaged communities.”
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:28:06 +0000
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