Gang of 26 Still Won?t Go Away?.
Style Weekly, continues the conversation on the “Gang of 26″ this week with an article about Richmond City School’s non-profit organization the the RPS Education Foundation. The Near West End News wrote about it 2 weeks ago, and the controversy keeps coming. Although it is not an opinion piece, the story points out that this […]
Style Weekly, continues the conversation on the “Gang of 26” this week with an article about Richmond City School’s non-profit organization the the RPS Education Foundation. The Near West End News wrote about it 2 weeks ago, and the controversy keeps coming.
Although it is not an opinion piece, the story points out that this basically inactive organization would be the perfect venue for the business leaders to contribute some money to RPS while still maintaining some control over how the money is spent by sitting on the board.
Can the quagmire and red tape of RPS be avoided by going through this organization? Only time will tell.
Here’s an excerpt from the story:
Since the inception of the Richmond Public Schools Education Foundation six years ago, the nonprofit organization has done next to nothing.
The Richmond School Board established the foundation to open a spigot for private money to enter public schools and got its first corporate pledge of $100,000 from Verizon in 2002.
Since then, the foundation has lost nearly all its steam. Until 2005, it quietly provided an outlet for small-time private donors and a few much-smaller corporate donations. Then it faded.
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