I'll pass but if you would like to do that research yourself, you
might start here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/phillyhi/archive/2004/02/15/73210.aspx
or here:
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/SchoolofFutureFAQ.mspx#EUB
but the question is answered definitively here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14206670
Frank
On Apr 5, 2008, at 07:56 PM, Anthony West wrote:
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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