2009年10月25日星期日

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


THE INFLUENCE GAME: Bill Gates sways govt dollars (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this  Sept. 8, 2009, file photo Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates speaks at the 'Get Schooled' conference hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom in Los Angeles.  The Gates Foundation has been by far the biggest player in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions of dollars to sway how the federal government distributes $5 billion in grants to overhaul public schools. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FILE)AP - The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.


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