Flood Gates Open: Foundation $ Moving from Traditional Schools to Charters

By Elizabeth Scheinberg

Published in Print: May 8, 2013, as Studies Find Funders Giving More to Fewer Groups

Ed. Funders Giving More to Same Few, Studies Show

'System challengers' get growing share

By Sarah D. Sparks

San Francisco
As more and more foundation money floods into K-12 education, it is being channeled to fewer and fewer groups, according to new research presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting here last week.
Researchers also found that foundation money is moving away from traditional public schools and toward "challengers to the system"—primarily charter schools—and that the funders in general are becoming much more active in shaping how those challengers develop.