The first episode of Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson's podcast, Citations Needed, tackles the media hype surrounding the privatization of education.

Show notes can be found here:

2010 tax form for Participant Foundation used to fund Waiting for Superman (note: four donors-- Waltons, Eli Broad, Donald Fisher, Dave Einhorn): 990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_ar…06_990PF.pdf
Gates $2 million contribution to film web.archive.org/web/2010101600404…C-OPP1019819.aspx

Books mentioned by Berkshire: The One Percent Solution www.amazon.com/One-Percent-Solut…ing/dp/1501703064

New Orleans graduation rate stats article from 2014 by Adam citationsneeded.com/2014/05/24/char…na-memory-hole/

Further reading:

newrepublic.com/article/140319/ch…ad-black-students

www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/11/…-charter-schools/

Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam

Citations Needed