Business-Managed Democracy

• Introduction

• School Funding

• Commercialism

• Sponsored Materials

• Business Campaigns
• Key Individuals
  • Edward B. Rust
  • Rust Connections
  • David Kearns
  • Louis Gerstner
• Business Coalitions
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• Foundations
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  • Walton Family
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  • Overlaps
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Business-Managed Education

Key Think Tank Personnel

Some Key Individuals and their Associations

Campaigners	Positions – Think Tanks	Positions – Education Advocacy Groups
William Bennett Former education secretary in the Reagan Admin 1985-88	Heritage Foundation Hudson Institute Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA) co-founder Madison Center, which merged with IEA to form Madison Center for Educational Affairs founder/co-director of Empower America (now FreedomWorks), funding from Sarah Scaife, JM, Lynde and Harry Bradley, and Olin foundations.	Board member, Put Parents in Charge Co-chair, Campaign for America’s Children trustee, Committee for a Free World
Chester E. Finn, Jr Former US Asst Sec. of Education, Counsellor to Sec. of Education Bennett 85-88	President Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute Manhattan Institute Hudson Institute Hoover Institution Brookings Institution	Co-founder and chair, Educational Excellence Network founding partner and senior scholar with the Edison Project board member of Charter School Leadership Council; Center for Educational Reform; Foundation for Teaching Economics; National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; National Council on Teacher Quality
Diane Ravitch Asst Sec. of Education 91-93 Professor, New York University	Hudson Institute Manhattan Institute Hoover Institute Brookings Institution Thomas B. Fordham Foundation	Co-founder Educational Excellence Network Worked closely with Finn, promoted national standards whilst in govt
Denis Doyle Asst Director of the National Institute of Education Consultant to various corporations	American Enterprise Institute Heritage Foundation Hudson Institute Brookings Institution	Co-founder of SchoolNet –web-based instruction Board of the Centre for Education Reform Co-author of three education books with CEOs of PG, IBM and Xerox
Dinesh D’Souza Senior policy analyst, Reagan White House 85-87	American Enterprise Institute Hoover Institution
Nina Shokraii Rees Advisor to the vice president on education, Deputy Under Sec. for Innovation and Improvement, Dept of Education	Thomas B. Fordham Institute Heritage Foundation Institute of Justice Americans for Tax Reform

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