Black Alliance for Educational Options

The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) is an organization dedicated to the eradication of public schools. It received much of its funding from the Walton Family Foundation. According to Media Transparency, BAEO is "actually a project of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, headed by Howard Fuller, at Marquette University." 

According to the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General report on Department PR expenditures in fiscal years 2002 through 2004, BAEO received $1,500,000 in 2002 - 2004, to "actively support parental choice and increase educational options for black children through a 'multi-layered media campaign'." 

Funding
According to Media Transparency, BAEO has received funding from:
 * John M. Olin Foundation - $100,000 in 2001, "to support parental choice in education"
 * Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation - $500,000 in 2001 and $325,000 in 2003, to support general operations
 * Walton Family Foundation - $621,374 in 2002, to support education, and $600,000 in 2003
 * Jaquelin Hume Foundation - $75,000 in 2002 and $75,000 in 2003

Personnel
According to their website:
 * Lawrence C. Patrick, III - President & CEO
 * Isaac Ewell - Director of Small Schools Project
 * K. Miata Fuller - Director of Operations
 * Karlena R. Glenn - Director of Membership & Chapter Development
 * Nicole Johnson - Co-Director for Symposium & Conference Program Development
 * Reina Johnson - Co-Director for Symposium & Conference Participant Services
 * Shree’ Medlock - National Training Coordinator (Dallas)
 * Monique Miller - Director of Project Clarion
 * Allen Penn - Administrative Assistant
 * Leon M. Tucker - Director of Communications
 * Danielle Wright - Administrative Assistant

Board of Directors
According to their website:
 * Howard Fuller
 * Lawrence Patrick
 * Jacqueline Joyner Cissell
 * Mashea Ashton
 * Raymond Bryant
 * Cory Booker
 * Willie Breazell
 * Kenneth Campbell
 * Dawn Chavous
 * Zakiya Courtney
 * Dwight Evans
 * T. Willard Fair
 * Andrea Foggy-Paxton
 * Vernard Gant
 * Casey Lartigue
 * Leroy McClure
 * Deborah McGriff
 * Quentin Messer
 * Lawrence Patrick
 * Kocoalouise Pembleton-Smith
 * Anita Ruiz
 * Dale Sadler
 * Hal Smith
 * Virginia Walden Ford
 * Omar Wasow
 * Selina Wellington
 * Alvin Williams
 * Johnathan Williams

Plus advisory board members:
 * Kenneth Blackwell
 * Floyd Flake

Contact Information
Black Alliance for Educational Options 1710 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Floor 12 Washington, D.C. 20036 phone: (202) 429-2236 fax: (202) 429-2237 web: http://www.baeo.org/

SourceWatch Resources

 * Department of Education
 * Covert propaganda
 * Virginia Walden Ford - former Executive Director