I thought this was a fascinating factoid -
"Just to put in perspective the degree to which these government funds make private foundation resources look like chump change, if every penny of the Gates Foundation 2010 grant budget had gone to K-12 education, it could have paid for less than one full day of nationwide schooling. In other words, the US government spends more each day on education than the Gates Foundation spends across all their programs each year."
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Ultimately, we assume Gates is spending so much money he must deserve to be leading the conversation on education reform. yet, what he spends is a drop in the bucket compared to what taxpayers invest, who appear to have very little say in our schools "reform" agenda.
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