Gates Leads $9-Million Gift for Seattle Schools
March 11, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Four philanthropies — led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — will give a combined $9-million to Seattle public schools over the next three years, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
The Gates Foundation has earmarked $7.2-million to efforts to strengthen college-prep courses, establish a new computerized testing system, and improve teacher hiring. The remaining $1.8-million will come from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Boeing Company, and the Stuart Foundation.
Also: In an opinion column for the online magazine Salon, Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, criticizes Gates for ignoring global warming in his philanthropy. The developing world, a focus of the Gates Foundation, will “suffer horribly” as a result of climate change, Mr. Romm writes.
