Event
States adopt the Common Core standards
The state-by-state adoption of shared school standards in math and English from about 2010.
The Washington Post reported in 2014 that the Gates Foundation spent more than $200 million, as Education Week quotes it, building political support for the standards. Bill Gates said the foundation funds people to look into things, not to say they like the Common Core. A Kentucky teachers’ union leader said the foundation’s money could influence the state and federal education departments and both national teachers’ unions.
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Gates Foundation
funder; the Washington Post’s figure is quoted and the foundation disputes the aim
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The $200 million is the Washington Post’s figure as Education Week quotes it; the Post’s sentence can be read to include paying for the standards themselves. Gates said the foundation funds research and does not pay people to endorse the standards.
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The Washington Post’s “Tense” Talk With Bill Gates on Common Core, Education Week, Jun 2014.
Scholarship & press
With more than $200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.
We fund people to look into things. We don’t fund people to say, ‘Okay, we’ll pay you this if you say you like the Common Core.’
These are not political things
They have so much money to throw around, they can impact the Kentucky Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, they can impact both the AFT and the NEA
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