August 23, 2011 12:10PM 

# School Reform’s Shaky Foundations? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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[*Philanthropy Daily* has just published the most interesting review to date ](http://www.philanthropydaily.com/?p=6447)of my recent charter school philanthropy study (“[The Other Lottery](https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA677.pdf)”). Scott Walter, an expert in charitable giving in the field of education, looks not only at the central finding (that there is no link between charter networks’ performance and the amount of grant funding they’ve received) but also extrapolates to what the findings imply about the nation’s top education foundations.

I’m curious to know if anyone else shares his interest in seeing the numbers crunched to allow education foundations to be ranked in terms of the performance of the charter school networks they have backed. [Ping me on Facebook ](http://www.facebook.com/andrew.j.coulson)if you’d like to see that.

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