Two-thirds of the money Charles Koch Foundation distributed in 2018 went to universities and colleges.
Koch Invested $127.5 Million in Building Right-Wing Infrastructure in 2018
By David Armiak | at
Education
Koch Network Dominates SPN Annual Meeting Attendees
By David Armiak | at
Right-wing policy network gathers in Colorado Springs to advance anti-labor, climate denial, and anti-disclosure agenda.
ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas
By David Armiak | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, for its 46th Annual Meeting at the posh JW Marriott hotel.
Kochs’ Dark-Money Network Bankrolls Campus “Free Speech” Group
By David Armiak and Ralph Wilson | at
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 | at
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 | at
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 | at
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 | at
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.
ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit
By David Armiak | at
ALEC state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. today for ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit to promote an agenda only fossil fuel companies could love.
Wisconsin Nice Beats the Politics of Hate and the Scott Walker Money Machine
By Mary Bottari | at
Holy mackerel! Tony Evers will be the next governor of Wisconsin!