Campbell Brown is now the face of the campaign to eliminate due process rights for teachers. Most people know she was once a TV personality on CNN. Some may know that she has two children who attend private schools.

But no one knows for sure who is funding Brown’s new organization, the Partnership for Educational Justice. Seven parents backed by the group filed suit in State Supreme Court in Albany on July 28 to invalidate due process and seniority rights for teachers. The suit was inspired by the Vergara decision in California, in which a state judge struck down tenure and seniority rights, pending an appeal.

Vergara was bankrolled by David Welch, a Silicon Valley millionaire who has made no secret of his plans to reshape education policy and the rights of teachers. Welch is now funding and coordinating the first copy-cat lawsuit in New York City filed by the New York City Parents Union in early July. Brown, on the other hand, has refused to name her backers.

“They are going to go after people who are funding us,” Brown told Stephen Colbert when he asked her to divulge her funders on his show on July 31, referring to public school parents who picketed the studio with handmade signs.

Nonetheless, a portrait is starting to emerge based on Brown’s alliances with right-wing billionaires and political operatives who seem intent on destroying and privatizing public education.

The board of directors of the Partnership for Educational Justice sounds like a who’s who of corporate education reformers — the same suspects also turn up on the boards of StudentsFirst, Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools and other like-minded organizations.

It’s no surprise that Daniel Allen, who sits on the board of Brown’s group, brings with him a deep capacity for raising money. He is the founding partner at Corona Investment Partners, a private equity firm based in New York City.  Before that, he worked at Bain Capital for nearly 10 years — that’s the company that Mitt Romney founded and which famously helped other companies outsource jobs overseas.

Board member Joe Williams is the executive director of the political action committee Democrats for Education Reform, which advocates for charter schools, vouchers, merit pay and the marginalization of teachers unions, and which has successfully pulled in billions of dollars from hedge-fund managers who are placing big bets on charter schools. Upon learning of the launch this summer of Democrats for Public Education, a new group that aims to counter the corporate reform movement, Williams had a strange response, which is still posted on his organization’s website:  “Welcome to the jungle, baby.”

Also on the board of Campbell’s group is Derrell Bradford, a leading education “reformer” in New Jersey who previously headed Excellent Education for Everyone, the state’s largest advocacy group promoting charter schools. Bradford also serves on the board of Success Academy and was a member of Gov. Chris Christie’s Educator Effectiveness Task Force, which recommended that at least 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation be based on student test scores.

Dan Senor, Brown’s husband, was a spokesman for President George W. Bush’s failed foreign policy in Iraq — the consequences of which we are vividly living with today. And he was also an adviser to Romney during his failed campaign for president in 2012.

After leaving government, Senor became an investment banker, and for a time joined Elliott Management, which is owned by Paul Singer — a billionaire investor who has given millions of dollars to Republican campaigns and neoconservative groups.

Senor is now a board member at StudentsFirstNY, the New York affiliate of the national organization founded by Michelle Rhee that has spearheaded the “ed reform” agenda. And file this under No Coincidence: The director of organizing for StudentsFirstNY is also on the advisory board of Brown’s organization, and another paid organizer for StudentsFirstNY is a parent plaintiff in Brown’s sponsored lawsuit.

The Project for Educational Justice is not the only organization that Brown has led. Last year she started the Parents’ Transparency Project  —  ostensibly to call for more transparency in teachers union contracts. The project’s bias was revealed when it bought a $100,000 TV attack ad in August 2013 demanding to know if any of the New York City mayoral candidates “had the guts to stand up to the teachers union.”

That ad was produced by Revolution Agency, which employs a number of former Republican staff members, who brag on the agency website about two successful campaigns: to defeat card check legislation, by which a union is established at a work site if a majority of the workers sign union cards; and to turn public opinion against Medicaid expansion. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported in August that more than 6.7 million people will remain uninsured in the 24 states that have rejected the expansion of Medicaid.

In the end, there is no mystery to it at all: The company that Campbell Brown keeps speaks volumes about her values and broader agenda to privatize public education. And that is why parents and teachers across the country are organizing against her,