Thanks for updating us, Frank. So where does the money for this school
come from, in fact? How much comes from tax revenues allocated to the
School District and what is this funding source called? How much comes
from something-blabla-Gates and what is this funding source called?
I'd be very interested to learn these details and many other UC-list
readers would too. Can you check it out and get back to us?
-- Tony West
Frank wrote:
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
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