Wal-Mart haters will have trouble with this news. The Walton Family Foundation is continuing its work to help low-income kids escape failing urban public schools. From the LA Times comes the story of the Foundation’s donations to Los Angeles schools.

Most of the schools received more than $200,000 each. The California Charter Schools Assn. received $3.9 million, and more than $2 million will go to Teach for America in Southern California, out of the almost $17 million given overall to the program, which is aimed at boosting student achievement by placing teachers in hard-to-staff schools.

Hmm. Helping poor kids get an education, employing the elderly and the disabled, offering low prices on a wide variety of quality products. Why the heck would any community allow these dastardly folks in?