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Friday, March 2, 2012

This Week In Education: Charts: More Evidence Gates Is "Over" Charters

This Week In Education: Charts: More Evidence Gates Is "Over" Charters:

Charts: More Evidence Gates Is "Over" Charters

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Look at this new @kenmlibby analysis of the Gates Foundation's grantmaking over the past three years and you'll see something I've been talking about but no one's really paid attention to (or believed): a sharp (49 percent) decrease in funding for charter schools.

Some would argue that the Gates folks let their charter funding slip because the Obama folks have pushed so hard on that front. This is not to say that the foundation is anti-charter at this point -- there are charter-related functions in