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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Schools Matter: Gates Document Details Plans for Influence Peddling and Propaganda War for Corporate Ed

Schools Matter: Gates Document Details Plans for Influence Peddling and Propaganda War for Corporate Ed

Gates Document Details Plans for Influence Peddling and Propaganda War for Corporate Ed

Valerie Strauss has acquired the smoking gun that documents what we have known for a long time now: the Gates Foundation is flooding the nation's political plates with cash, along with state and local school systems, all the way down to the classroom level. The amazing document, this Gates proposal, outlines the work of a number of Gates Foundation efforts, but primarily it is aimed to provide guidance for the org that wins the grant of $3 million and change to run an outfit that was originally known as Teaching First. (That idea is now dead, since the super-secret details including the name of the outfit have now been exposed).