Please visit the CorpWatch Homepage for the latest information. The corporate reach into U.S. classrooms today is stunning. Big business sponsors everything from lesson plans to football stadiums, from classroom posters to athletic uniforms. It doesn't end there. A handful of for-profit companies are contracting with local school districts to manage public schools.
Critics charge school boards with selling kids to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile, in many countries, the defunding of public education is part and parcel of structural adjustment packages that savage the social safety net. Explore it for a floor to ceiling look at the full extent of commercialism in the classroom. Our report includes a look a local school district's recent battle over privatization. Defunding education is a worldwide trend. An extensive list of Resources and Actions on education reform.