N.Y. Chancellor Tisch spends millions on Race-To-Top 'advisers"
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“Private people give money to support things they’re interested in,” -- Roger Tilles, member of the Board of Regents.
Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, Merryl Tisch, is contracting 13 research fellows to advise the education commissioner and the 17-member board on how to spend its $700 million Race To The Top grant. The fellows will be paid as much as $189,000 each, in private money; to date, $4.5 million has been raised, including $1 million donated Tisch herself. She is a member of one of New York’s multi-billionaire families.
Donors to the program will include Bill Gates ($892,000), who is leading the charge to evaluate teachers,