You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a Bill Gates non-profit
…Or a former NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) employee working for a Bill Gates backed non-profit.
Case in point, Tabitha Grossman of Hope Street Group.
Who is Hope Street Group?
In case you missed my previous articles on Hope Street Group, they are, in a nutshell, a Bill Gates backed non-profit using a ‘Teacher Voice Network’ to continue pushing Common core. They are a resident of what I call the Common Core Potemkin Village.
North Carolina’s Superintendent is quite cozy with Hope Street and has entered NC into a partnership with them in March of this year.
More on that partnership in a separate article. Back to Tabitha Grossman.
Ms. Grossman has been the “National Director for Education Policy and Partnerships” for Hope Street Group since June of 2013. Here is where she was and what she did prior to that, via her LinkedIn resume:
Program Director National Governors Association June 2011 – November 2012 (1 year 6 months)
Senior Policy Analyst National Governors Association September 2008 – June 2011 (2 years 10 months)
Director, Learn and Earn Early College High Schools North Carolina Department of Public Instruction September 2007 – September 2008 (1 year 1 month)Raleigh, NC
Gee, a former NC DPI employee. Grossman’s next step was the National Governor’s Association (NGA) right at about the time Common Core was being created.
According to her NGA bio, she was in the thick of it with Common Core and ‘human capital’:
“she is currently working with governors and their key policy staff to help them assess and address the impact of the Common Core State Standards on human capital policy.”
While at the NGA, Grossman was tasked with training informing Governors about Common Core by providing them talking points, action plans in a report that “was made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.”
Fun footnote: If you read page 24 of that NGA report Grossman was a part of, you’ll see it also mentions the ‘Shared Learning Collaborative. That collaborative was renamed You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a Bill Gates non-profit | Lady Liberty 1885:
