Walton Family Foundation Surpasses 1,500 Charter School Startup Investments
Largest private funder of charter school startups has supported the opening of roughly one in four charter schools in the nation since 1997Today the Walton Family Foundation announced 2013 public charter school startup investments of nearly $25 million to support the opening of 112 new schools. The foundation, the largest private funder of charter school startups, has invested $335 million since 1997 to fund charter school startups. Today, approximately one out of every four charter schools in the U.S. has received startup funding from the foundation. “For more than 15 years, the