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The Koch Brothers Sneak into School

How Right-wing Billionaires Seek to Shape the Social Studies Curriculum

 

By Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools curriculum editor 
and Zinn Education Project co-director

This month in Boston, thousands of teachers will gather for the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference.

 

Two non-teachers will be there, too: Charles and David Koch, the notorious right-wing billionaires.

Well, the Kochs won't be there in person, but they will be represented by a Koch-funded and controlled organization: the Arlington, Virginia-based Bill of Rights Institute. For years, the Bill of Rights Institute has shown up at NCSS conferences to offer curriculum workshops, distribute teaching materials, and collect the names of interested educators. What the Bill of Rights Institute representatives fail to mention when they speak with teachers is that they have been the conduit for millions of dollars from Charles and David Koch, as the brothers seek to influence the country's social studies curriculum. Continue reading.