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Green Dot provided the initial funding for Parent Revolution, though as of 2010 it no longer received funds from the group. It now receives the largest share of its funds from the Wasserman, Walton and Gates foundations.

14 percent on teacher preparation

less than 10 percent for everything else

University of Georgia researchers who did the analysis

Teach for America

$213,444,431, or 31 percent of the total

doesn’t include at least $150 million it received from foundations and the U.S. government in the past year, which is outside the scope of the report

2. Academy for Educational Development, $59,063,000 3. Northwest Educational Service District 189, $45,012,830 4. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, $21,561,106 5. The New Teacher Project, $17,955,680 6. University of California at Santa Cruz, New Teacher Center, $16,642,730 7. Teacher Advancement Program, $15,480,625 8. National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, $12,401,350 9. Philadelphia Foundation, $10,000,000 10. Teachers Network, $9,441,402

1. Carnegie Corp. of New York, $81,969,575 2. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $78,167,363 3. Annenberg Foundation, $36,725,000 4. Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, $25,401,978 5. Broad Foundation, $24,554,869 6. Joyce Foundation, $23,773,256 7. Lilly Endowment, Inc. $21,224,576 8. Milken Family Foundation, $20,700,625 9. Ford Foundation, $17,581,716 10. Stuart Foundation, $14,459,666

What is different today, the report notes, is the “convergence between the philanthropic sector and federal policymakers,” which is a polite way of saying that Duncan’s Education Department has the same agenda as many of the philanthropists (and Duncan has in fact hired key aides from the philanthropic community), which is a polite way of saying that, in the opinion of many, Duncan’s department is in the thrall of billionaires who are using their wealth to set and direct the country’s education reform agenda.