Money buys change, and trumps reason, again

I'm not surprised that the main financial backers of many of the new Wake County School Board members are themselves in the business of running private schools.

Seems, times aren't changing at all - money buys change and trumps reason again.

From the ISS report (each number is a link to supporting information):

Rank of Art Pope -- primary Civitas benefactor and director of Americans for Prosperity, the group behind the Tea Party anti-tax protests -- among individual contributors to the anti-diversity candidates' campaigns: 2

Rank of Robert Luddy, current chair of Civitas and operator of a chain of private and charter schools: 1

Year in which Luddy founded Thales Academy, a chain of private K-8 schools in Wake County:2007

Year in which the chain opened an academy in Apex, N.C., with current Wake School Board Chair Ron Margiotta serving as a trustee: 2008

I sigh in Wake County's general direction.