Did Ryan Walters receive $120,000 from a non-profit funded by school privatization advocates while serving as the Secretary of Education? - Oklahoma Watch

Did Ryan Walters receive $120,000 from a non-profit funded by school privatization advocates while serving as the Secretary of Education? - Oklahoma Watch

Yes. Walters received an annual salary of at least $120,000 as the CEO of the nonprofit Every Kid Counts, which receives a substantial amount of its funding from national school privatization and charter school expansion advocates, while serving as Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education. An investigation conducted by The Frontier and Oklahoma Watch revealed that 78% of the $138,068 in donations raised by EKCO over four months came from the Walton Fa…