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