Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Equity Initiatives

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Foundations Are Behind All Equity Initiatives

Much of what you have read about in the preceding chapters happened in no small part because of these foundations.

The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 2019 New York Times series turned grade school curriculum, might never have seen the light of day if not for the MacArthur Foundation. In 2014, MacArthur awarded a $1 million, three-year grant to ProPublica, a liberal nonprofit news outlet for which Hannah-Jones wrote about race issues. She joined the Times the following year. In 2017, MacArthur awarded Hannah-Jones, whom it described as an “investigative journalist chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education,” a “$625,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.” In “How the 1619 Project Came Together,” the Times explained that Hannah-Jones consulted with “Kellie Jones, a Columbia University art historian and 2016 MacArthur Fellow.” Matthew Desmond, who contributed an article about the “brutality of American capitalism” to the series, was a 2015 MacArthur fellow. The Pulitzer Center, the nonprofit that pushed curricula based on the series into school districts across the country, is also funded by the MacArthur Foundation…