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Related: About this forumRush-hour protest by teachers to target the Gates Foundation
6/26 - Participating educators say the Gates Foundation, through its initiatives and the groups it funds, has blamed teachers and their unions for shortcomings in student performance while discounting the role of poverty.
They also are skeptical about the foundations influence in pushing one of the most sweeping changes in American education in decades the new Common Core standards for English and math.
The Gates Foundation has spent $233 million since 2008 supporting the writing and promotion of the Common Core standards, which have been fully adopted by Washington and 44 other states, according to a Washington Post story earlier this month.
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Squinch
(52,397 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)who would privatize education.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)snot
(10,660 posts)Whatever the system is, it should start by figuring out the reasonable cost to educate each child; and funds should be allocated and taxes assessed on that basis.
Financing education out of local property taxes has been an unmitigated disaster.