Poor beleaguered billionaires

"The $4 billion philanthropists spend annually on public education is less than 1 percent of the $500 billion America spends on public schools each year. The thousands of committed reformers sent into schools or onto school boards pale in number to the millions of long employed and sometimes entrenched systems in place.

"Moreover, lined up against the reformers are all sorts of much larger, better funded, better organized, and equally determined groups who will and do spend hundreds of millions of dollars to thwart the efforts of the reformers."
Co-authored by Melanie Lundquist, Philanthropist & Civic Activist, and Patrick Sinclair, Senior Director of Communications and External Affairs, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.