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About Gates' New, Lobbying Nonprofit: Don't Kid Yourself. Bill Gates Already Lobbies.Mercedes Schneider

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The public should realize that Gates already has an oversized influence on legislators and other elected and appointed officials where eduction reform is the issue. Gates is the entire spectrum of reforms, and he is more than willing to use his influence to promote his opinion of educational reform to those supposedly elected By the People.. For example, from 2002 to 2018, the Gates Foundation has paid the National Governors Association (NGA) $33.2M for Gates-approved initiatives, mostly affecting K12 education. From 2002 to 2018, Gates has also paid $122M to the state education superintendent organization, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) on his K12 education preferences.Gates has even paid grants to the US Department of Education: $858M (2013 – 2016) . Read more as he takes down public education."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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