The Philly mag article made it very clear that HSOF is NOT a Gates
Foundation project:
"There are two big misconceptions about the School of the Future. The
first is that Microsoft is paying for it. The second is that it is a
Gates Foundation school, one of the thousands of high schools around
the country that have received money from Bill Gates’s philanthropic
organization. (So far, more than $1 billion has been invested.) The
foundation focuses on improving high-school graduation rates by
funding small schools of 200 to 600 students, and frequently bankrolls
technology-based initiatives. But the School of the Future is not a
Gates School. It has nothing to do with the Gates Foundation
philanthropy."
Frank
On Apr 5, 2008, at 07:04 PM, Anthony West wrote:
As for the "different ilk" these private partners are seeking ... do
you truly think Bill and Melinda Gates spent all that money on the
HS of the Future just because they were trying to gentrify West
Philadelphia? They're in Seattle, for Pete's sake.
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