Schools Matter: The Most Dangerous Oligarch

Schools Matter: The Most Dangerous Oligarch

The Most Dangerous Oligarch

by Jim Horn

From Leonie Haimson at HuffPo:

The most dangerous man in America

Bill Gates sure is a popular guy. He is appearing this afternoon at the national conference of the American Federation of Teachers in Seattle, after having recently been the keynote speaker at the annual National Charter School convention.

Just this week, Warren Buffett announced he was giving an additional $1.6 billion to the Gates Foundation, which already had a $35 billion endowment; by far the largest in the nation.

In the past eight years, the foundation has spent nearly $4 billion promoting his personal education agenda; at first providing subsidies to districts that would agree to close down large neighborhood