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eridani

(51,907 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2015, 02:18 AM Mar 2015

Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC [View all]

http://northdenvernews.com/stunning-revelation-bill-gates-has-spent-2-3-billion-on-common-core/

The new curriculum driven into law by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Common Core Standards, is a product of massive spending on an unprecedented historical level by Bill Gates.

Research by Jack Hassard, Professor Emeritus at Georgia State, shows compelling evidence that Gates has spent $2.3 billion pushing the Common Core. More than 1800 grants to organizations running from teachers unions to state departments of education to political groups like the National Governor’s Association have pushed the Common Core into 45 states, with little transparency and next to no public review.

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Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC [View all] eridani Mar 2015 OP

That speaks volumes, but some will translate it incorrectly. merrily Mar 2015 #1

then he wasted his money and our children Demeter Mar 2015 #2

I'll say it again. Fearless Mar 2015 #3

In theory it sounds really good to have a common core of education, but LiberalArkie Mar 2015 #4

Common Core requires all testing done on computer. roody Mar 2015 #5