1. Gates Foundations
2. Broad Foundation
   1. Broad Center for the Management of School Systems; Broad Academy
      1. Superintendents Academy
         1. Jim McIntyre
      2. Broad Residency
         1. Broad Residents in KCS
            1. Ginnae Harley, Former Dir Federal Programs
            2. Morgan Camu, Former Dir Strategic Planning
            3. Christy Hendler, former Dir Planning and Improvement
            4. Nakia Towns, 1. KCS Dir, Human Capital Strategy 2. KCS Chief Accountability Officer 3. TN DOE Asst. Commissioner: Data & Research Current: Chief of Staff - Hamilton Co. Schools
      3. Michelle Rhee, Former DC Chancellor of Ed.
3. Teach For America
4. NY Leadership Academy
5. Tax Payers Knox Co
6. Tennessee Department of Education
   1. Former Commissioner Kevin Huffman
   2. Former Commissioner Candice McQueen
   3. Commissioner Penny Schwinn
7. Center on Reinventing Public Ed
8. APEX Foundation
9. Knox Co Schools
10. Knox County Board of Education
    1. D1
       1. Evetty Satterfield
    2. D2
       1. Jennifer Owen
    3. D3
       1. Tony Norman
    4. D4
       1. Virginia Babb
    5. D5
       1. Susan Horn
    6. D6
       1. Terry Hill
    7. D7
       1. Patti Bounds
    8. D8
       1. Mike McMillan
    9. D9
       1. Kristi Kristy
11. Education Reform Now
    1. Democrats for Ed. Reform
       1. DFER - Tennessee
          1. Natasha Kamrani DFER TN State Dir Former: Exec. Dir TFA Houston
    2. 50CAN
       1. TN CAN
12. Walton Family & Foundation
13. Knox County Commission
14. Charles Koch Foundation
15. ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council
    1. GEO Group 2nd-largest private prison co.
    2. PepsiCo
    3. Coca-Cola
    4. General Motors
    5. Education Policies Institute
    6. Beacon Hill Institute
    7. Walgreen Co.
    8. Google
    9. Walmart
16. Goldwater Institute
17. Charter Schl Growth Fund
18. Stand for Children
19. Students First
    1. TN Students First
20. Great Schools
21. Success Acad. Charters
22. TN General Assembly
23. Pearson PLC Parent Company
    1. CONNECTIONS Academy
    2. Adobe Press
    3. Allyn & Bacon
    4. Addison-Wesley (IT)
    5. Financial Times
    6. Wharton School Pub.
    7. Prentice Hall
    8. Penguin Group
    9. Penguin Random House
    10. Pearson Longman
    11. Scott Foresman
    12. Harcourt
    13. Puffin
    14. GED
    15. SAT
    16. Millers Analogy Test
    17. ED TPA
    18. Will Ethridge
    19. Susan Furman
    20. S. Joshua Lewis
    21. Theodore R. Mitchell
24. Education Development Center
    1. Cisco Systems
    2. IBM
    3. Intel
25. Common Core State Standards
    1. David Goleman (design guidelines)
    2. Lockheed Martin
    3. Exxon Mobile
    4. Boing
    5. Ford Foundation
    6. Pearson Foundation
    7. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
    8. NGA National Governors Assoc
    9. Council of Chief State School Officers
26. New Classrooms
    1. Carrie M. Penner
    2. Mike Bezos
    3. Richard Barth CEO
    4. David Levin
    5. Mike Fember
27. Center for Ed. Reform
28. Reason Foundation
29. David Koch Charitable Foundation
30. Americans for Prosperity (Koch PAC c(3))
31. Challenge Foundation
32. National Chamber Foundation
33. Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
34. Donors Trust
    1. Donors Capital Fund DonorsTrust affiliate $1 million+ anon. donors
35. Cascade Policy Institute
36. Ed Choice
37. Castle Rock Foundation
38. Jaquelin Hume Foundation
39. DeVos Family Foundation
40. Tennesseans for Putting Students First (merger: TNCAN & TN Students 1st)
41. Metro Nashville Board of Education
    1. Michelle Robinson
42. Koch Industries 2nd-largest US private co
    1. Koch Industries PAC
43. American Federation for Children
    1. Alliance for School Choice ALC growth fund 501(c)(3)
    2. AFC Action Fund 527
    3. TN Federation for Children
44. ALTICOR formerly AMWAY
45. Betsy DeVos
46. Great Lakes Ed. Project (GLEP)
    1. Great Lakes Ed Foundation 501(c)(3)
    2. Great Lakes Ed. Fund 501(c)(4)
47. Club for Growth
    1. Wisconsin Club for Growth
48. US Senator Lamar Alexander
49. James Madison Center for Free Speech
    1. Citizens United
50. President George H.W. Bush
51. Youth Entreprenuers
52. Charles Koch
53. Hamilton Co Dept of Ed.
54. CoreCivic (Formerly CCA) Largest private prison co. in US Prisons, Rehab centers, Detention Centers
55. David H. Koch
56. State Policy Network (think tank network)
    1. Alliance for School Choice
       1. Corey Booker former board mbr
    2. Maine Heritage Policy Center
    3. Operation Geek Farm Formerly "Spark Freedom" TN affiliate of State Policy Network
    4. Beacon Center of TN
57. Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation
58. Robert Mercer Foundation
59. Young America's Foundation
60. Heritage Foundation
61. Cato Institute
62. Foundation for Traditional Values
63. Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty
64. Focus on the Family
65. Scripps Research Institute
66. Young Life
67. School Choice Federal PAC
68. Targeted ads in TN after DeVos visited Gov. Lee
69. Justin Owen School Choice Lobbyist
70. University of Tennessee
    1. University of Tennessee Leadership Academy
71. Tennessee Governor
    1. Current Governor Bill Lee
72. House Speaker Glen Casada
    1. 13% of Campaign Donations from DC
73. Butler Snow Pac
74. Knoxville Chamber of Commerce
75. Nashville Chamber of Commerce
76. Nashville Alliance for Public Ed
77. Skillful
78. Adams & Reese PAC
    1. Tony Swafford
79. Prof Staff
80. Tennessee State Board of Education
    1. Mike Edwards
81. Elsa Prince
82. Dick DeVos
83. Council for National Policy
    1. Herman Cain
    2. Oliver North
    3. Pat Robertson
84. Acheive, Inc.
85. MARSHA PAC aka: LEADERSHIP PAC
86. House Rep. Bill Dunn
87. Information in this map has been aggregated from multiple sources, including: - Conservative Transparency: http://conservativetransparency.org - Follow the Money: https://www.followthemoney.org - LittleSis: https://littlesis.org - Individual campaign disclosure statements - News reports from national sources A glossary page will be attached to a future version of this chart. This chart is compiled by Jennifer Owen, using "Xmind 8" mindmapping software. If you would like to see this chart in a different format, please contact her to determine what may be available. Suggestions for additions are welcome. Jennifer@Owen4Schools.com
88. Senator Brian Kelsey
89. Key
    1. Major Political and/or Financial Player
    2. American Legislative Exchange Council Endorsed
    3. Broad- Related
    4. Tennessee State Entity
    5. Tennessee Lawmaker
    6. A TN Public School District
    7. Special Interest Research, Policy Creation, and Lobbying
    8. Charitable Organization
    9. Foundations through which privatization funding travels
    10. Financial Pass-through?
    11. Education Association
    12. Other
    13. from
        1. to
    15. from
        1. to
    17. from
        1. to
90. David Brennan
91. Mosaica Education a global education company
92. Charter Super Networks
    1. Aspira Association
    2. Big Picture Learning
    3. ResponsiveED
    4. Uncommon Schools
    5. Learning Matters Education Group
    6. White Hat (private charter management)
       1. Ohio Distance & Electronic Learning Academy
          1. CEO Thomas Barrett
       2. 15 Life Skills centers that cater to high school dropouts.
    7. K-12 Inc
       1. 1st Chairman William Bennett Secretary of Ed under Reagan
       2. Ohio Virtual Academy
       3. Jeff Kwitowski spokesman for K12 Inc.
       4. Ronald J. Packard
          1. Pansophic Learning (charter management)
             1. Accel Schools
             2. International School of Berne
       5. Lowell Milken
93. Center for Reasearch in Education Outcomes
94. Delores Gresham 2016: $25,000 from Public Education Policy Industry
95. National Education Association
    1. TN Education Association
       1. HCEA
       2. KCEA
          1. Knox Retired Teachers Assoc.
96. Professional Staff
97. Tennessee Collaborative on Reforming Education
    1. Bill Frist
    2. Janet Ayers
       1. The Ayers Foundation
    3. Chuck Cagle
       1. Attorney
    4. Kevin Cllayton
       1. Clayton Homes
    5. David Golden
       1. Eastman Chemical
    6. J. D. Hickey
       1. Blue Cross Blue Sheild
    7. Pitt Hyde
       1. Hyde Family Foundation
    8. Orrin Ingram
       1. Ingram Industries
    9. Alan Levine
       1. Ballad Health
    10. Scott Niswonger
        1. Niswonger Foundation
    11. Christine Richards
        1. Fed Ex
    12. David Mansouri
        1. CEO - SCORE
    13. Dee Haslam
        1. Pilot Flying J
        2. Cleavland Browns
        3. RIVR Media, LLC
98. Fred Koch Oil fortune Built refineries for Third Reich
99. Milken Family Foundation
    1. Milken Educator Awards
    2. Michael Milken (junk bonds)
    3. Milken Institute (econ think tank)
    4. Lowell Milken
100. Chiefs for Change
101. Memphis-Shelby County Schools
102. Aspire Charters
103. Green Dot Schools
     1. Marlene Canter
     2. Roy Romer
     3. Paul Miller
     4. Brad Rosenberg
     5. Timothy Wahl
     6. Al Jerome
     7. Carole Neal
     8. Ly Cecilia Nguyen
     9. Larry Jacobs
     10. Ronni Ephraim
104. KIPP Foundation
     1. Don & Doris Fisher Family (Gap Fortune)
     2. Scott Hamilton Circomventure Learning
105. Lee Canter
     1. "Assertive Discipline"
106. Genesis LA Economic Growth Corp
107. Verizon Foundation
108. Shell Oil
109. NAEP Advisory Board
110. Superior Petroleum Marketers
111. Memphis Teacher Residency (alternative cert)
112. Jeb Bush
     1. Foundation for FL's Future (FFF)
     2. EXCELinED Foundation for Excellence in Education
        1. Board
           1. Reginald J. Brown
           2. Eric Cantor
           3. Chris Cerf
           4. Gary Chartrand
           5. Cesar Conde
           6. F. Philip Handy
           7. Allan B. Hubbard
           8. Joel I. Klein
           9. Susana Martinez
           10. Dee Bagwell Haslam
        2. National Summit
        3. Arts for Life
113. Petroleum Marketers Corp of America
114. Former Governor Bill Haslam
     1. Chrissy Haslam
115. Jim Haslam II
     1. James A. Haslam III
        1. Dee Bagwell Haslam
116. Haslam Foundations
117. Pilot Oil
118. Cleveland Browns
119. Tennessee Charter School Cneter
120. Tennessee First
121. Fed Ex
122. Marathon Petroleum
123. Duncan for Congress
124. Senator Becky Massey