Rich siblings spend big bucks to affect California education funding:

Rich siblings spend big bucks to affect California education funding

Posted by Valerie Strauss on October 14, 2012 at 11:08 pm

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Molly Munger    ( Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

 The Munger siblings vs. California Gov. Jerry Brown: Here is this week’s case study in our continuing look at how billionaires (and millionaires) are throwing around their money to drive education reform.

Last week I wrote about a bunch of billionaires (Bill Gates, for one) using their fabulous wealth in support of an initiative in Washington state that would allow charter schools to open there for the first time. Voters in the state have turned down the idea three times, but some people can’t take no for an answer.

Now in California, the daughter and son of billionaire Charles Munger (who is the business partner of the fabulously wealthy Warren Buffet) are spending  millions of dollars to defeat    

‘Why everyone deserves a second chance at education’ — a book excerpt

by Valerie Strauss

 Mike Rose is a highly respected professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of several books. His latest. “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education,” looks a new at the role of higher education in the social and political life of the country and looks at ways that could give more people a chance at a college education. Here’s an excerpt:
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