Suit Accuses Walton Foundation Of Torpedoing New Charter Group
A foundation established by Wal-Mart tycoon Sam M. Walton is being accused in a federal lawsuit of effectively snuffing out a fledgling national charter school organization.
Marc Dean Millot, who was hired last March as the first president and chief executive officer of the National Charter School Alliance, accuses the Walton Family Foundation of reneging last summer on what he claims was a "firm commitment" for multiyear funding. That move, Mr. Millot alleges in a complaint filed Nov. 12 in federal court in Alexandria, Va., was "calculated to cause [the alliance's] demise, and with it, the demise of Mr. Millot as a player in the charter school movement."
Cathy Lund, the program director of the Walton Foundation's national charter school initiative, said the Bentonville, Ark.-based philanthropy would have no comment...
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