Wednesday, August 28, 2013

U P D A T E D: THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS: BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR BY THE GATES FOUNDATION – A Brief Audit of Bill Gates’ CCSS Spending

by Mercedes Schneider from her EduBlog deutsch29 | http://bit.ly/16QoQFB

[ referred by DianeRav | About Mercedes Schneider ]

  August 27, 2013   ::  This is a post about Bill Gates and his money, a brief audit of his Common Core (CCSS) purchases. Before I delve into Gates accounting, allow me to set the stage with a bit of CCSS background.

It is important to those promoting CCSS that the public believes the idea that CCSS is “state-led.” The CCSS website reports as much and names two organizations as “coordinating” the “state-led” CCSS: The National Governors Association (NGA), and the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Interestingly, the CCSS website makes no mention of CCSS “architect” David Coleman:

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).  The standards were developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts, to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce. [Emphasis added.]

Nevertheless, if one reviews this 2009 NGA news release on those principally involved in CCSS development, one views a listing of 29 individuals associated with Student Achievement Partners, ACT, College Board, and Achieve. In truth, only 2 out of 29 members are not affiliated with an education company.

CCSS as “state-led” is fiction. Though NGA reports 29 individuals as involved with CCSS creation, it looks to be even fewer:

NGA first directly involved governors in nationalizing education standards in June 2008, when it co-hosted an education forum with the Hunt Institute, a project of former North Carolina Gov. James Hunt Jr. In December 2008, NGA, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Achieve Inc. released a report calling for national standards. The report recommended “a strong state-federal partnership” to accomplish this goal.

Those three nonprofits answered their own call the next few months, deciding to commission Common Core. NGA and Hunt’s press releases during that time, and a paper describing NGA’s Common Core process by former NGA education director Dane Linn, provide no endorsement of such activity from more than a handful of elected officials. [Emphasis added.]

Also involved in creation of CCSS is Student Achievement Partners, the company David Coleman started in 2007 in order produce national standards. Student Achievement Partners has no work other than CCSS.

Now to Bill Gates and his money.

The four principal organizations associated with CCSS– NGA, CCSSO, Achieve, and Student Achievement Partners– have accepted millions from Bill Gates. In fact, prior to CCSS “completion” in June 2009, Gates had paid millions to NGA, CCSSO, and Achieve. And the millions continued to flow following CCSS completion.

Prior to June 2009, NGA received $23.6 million from the Gates Foundation from 2002 through 2008. $19.7 million was for the highly-disruptive “high school redesign” (i.e., “small schools”) project, one that Gates abandoned.

After June 2009, NGA received an additional $2.1 million from Gates, the largest payout coming in February 2011,

to work with state policymakers on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, with special attention to effective resource reallocation to ensure complete execution, as well as rethinking state policies on teacher effectiveness
Amount: $1,598,477 [Emphasis added.]

Years ago, Gates paid NGA to “rethink policies on teacher effectiveness.”

One man, lots of money, nationally shaping a profession to which he has never belonged.

As for CCSSO: The Gates amounts are even higher than for NGA. Prior to June 2009, the Gates Foundation gave $47.1 million to CCSSO (from 2002 to 2007), with the largest amount focused on data “access” and “data driven decisions”:

March 2007
Purpose: to support Phase II of the National Education Data Partnership seeking to promote transparency and accessibility of education data and improve public education through data-driven decision making
Amount: $21,642,317 [Emphasis added.]

Following CCSS completion in June 2009, Gates funded CCSSO an additional $31.9 million, with the largest grants earmarked for CSSS implementation and assessment, and data acquisition and control:

July 2013
Purpose: to CCSSO, on behalf of the PARCC and SBAC consortia to support the development of high quality assessments to measure the Common Core State Standards
Amount: $4,000,000

November 2012
Purpose: to support the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in helping States’ to build their data inoperability capability and IT leadership capacity
Amount: $1,277,648

October 2012
Purpose: to support strategic planning for the sustainability of the Common Core State Standards and the two multi-state assessment consortia tasked with designing assessments aligned with those standards
Amount: $1,100,000

June 2011
Purpose: to support the Common Core State Standards work
Amount: $9,388,911

November 2009
Purpose: to partner with federal, state, public, and private interests to develop common, open, longitudinal data standards
Amount: $3,185,750

July 2009
Purpose: to increase the leadership capacity of chiefs by focusing on standards and assessments, data systems, educator development and determining a new system of supports for student learning
Amount: $9,961,842  [Emphasis added.]

Gates money also flowed to Achieve, Inc.; prior to June 2009, Achieve received $23.5 million in Gates funding. Another $13.2 million followed after CCSS creation, with $9.3 million devoted to “building strategic alliances” for CCSS promotion:

June 2012
Purpose: to strengthen and expand the ADP Network, provide
more support to states for CCSS implementation, and build strategic national
and statewide alliances by engaging directly with key stakeholders
Amount: $9,297,699  [Emphasis added.]

CCSS is not “state led.” It is “Gates led.”

How foolish it is to believe that the man with the checkbook is not calling the CCSS shots.

The “nonprofit” Student Achievement Partners, founded by CCSS “architect” David Coleman, also benefits handsomely via Gates. All that Student Achievement Partners does is CCSS, and for that, in June 2012, Gates granted Coleman’s company $6.5 million.

In total, the four organizations primarily responsible for CCSS– NGA, CCSSO, Achieve, and Student Achievement Partners– have taken $147.9 million from Bill Gates.

Common Core Gates Standards.

Let us now consider major education organizations and think tanks that have accepted Gates money for the express purpose of advancing CCSS:

American Enterprise Institute: $1,068,788.

American Federation of Teachers: $5,400,000.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: $3,269,428.

Council of Great City Schools: $5,010,988.

Education Trust: $2,039,526.

National Congress of Parents and Teachers: $499,962.

National Education Association: $3,982,597.

Thomas B. Fordham Institute: $1,961,116.

(For most of the organizations above, Gates has funded other reform-related efforts, including those related to charter schools, small schools, teacher evaluation, and data systems. My comprehensive listing of Gates grants for the organizations above [and then some] can be found here:  Gates Foundation Grants to Select Education and Policy Groups)

From the list of organizations above, I would like to highlight a few particular Gates purchases. First is this one, paid to the Fordham Institute:

Date: January 2011
Purpose: to track state progress towards implementation of standards and to understand how what students read changes in response to the standards
Amount: $1,002,000 [Purpose emphasis added.]

Even though CCSS was never piloted, Gates and Fordham want to watch state “progress” in implementing CCSS, and they even want to know how the untested CCSS shifts the curriculum– even though reformers are quick to parrot that CCSS is “not a curriculum.” This “tracking” tacitly acknowledges CCSS is meant to drive curriculum.

Next is this Gates purchase of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI):

Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support their education policy work in four distinct areas:
Exploring the Challenges of Common Core, Future of American Education Working Groups, Innovations in Financial Aid, and Bridging K-12 and Higher Ed with Technology
Amount: $1,068,788 [Purpose emphasis added.]

Gates is paying AEI to promote educational policy that bolsters CCSS. And Gates is getting his money’s worth from AEI “scholar” Frederick Hess, who offers these two articles advising “Common Core’ites.”

Third is the Gates purchase of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT):

Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support the AFT Innovation Fund and work on teacher
development and Common Core State Standards
Amount: $4,400,000

Even though AFT was not invited to the CCSS table until the “standards” had already been drafted by the CCSS Inner Circle noted above, and even though CCSS has not been piloted, AFT only called for a testing moratorium and not for a cease-and-desist of CCSS altogether. It appears that accepting $4.4 million in order to “work on teacher development and Common Core Standards” precludes “just saying no” to what amounts to the CCSS Colossal Education Experiment.

Fourth is the Gates purchase of the National Education Association (NEA). In July 2013, NEA officially endorsed CCSS, and in July 2013, Gates paid NEA for its support in the form of two grants totaling $6.3 million:

Date: July 2013
Purpose: to support the capacity of state NEA affiliates to advance teaching and learning issues and student success in collaboration with local affiliates
Amount: $2,426,500

Date: July 2013
Purpose: to support a cohort of National Education Association Master Teachers in the development of Common Core-aligned lessons in K-5 mathematics and K-12 English Language Arts
Amount: $3,882,600

NEA was not at the CCSS birthing table with NGA, CCSSO, Achieve, and David Coleman’s Student Achievement Partners. However, after the establishment of CCSS without teachers, now Gates is willing to pay a teachers union to create curricula that in the end do not really matter since the CCSS power is in the assessments that are completely out of NEA’s control.

I have saved my favorite CCSS-Gates purchase for last, this one to the Council of Great City Schools (CGCS):

Date: June 2011
Purpose: to promote and coordinate successful implementation of the new common core standards in major urban public school systems nationwide
Amount: $4,910,988

Date: March 2010
Purpose: to support the development of a cross-sector proposal to pilot test the new common core standards in a set of selected cities
Amount: $100,000  [Purpose emphasis added.]

It seems that Gates paid CGCS $100,000 to propose a pilot study of CCSS in 2010 (not to conduct a pilot study– just to draft the idea for a pilot). Fifteen months later, there is no mention of a “proposal” much less a pilot study materializing; instead, Gates pays CGCS to “just go ahead” and “coordinate successful implementation” of the untested CCSS.

So much Gates cash, and so many hands willing to accept it.

Bill Gates likes Common Core. So, he is purchasing it. In doing so, Gates demonstrates (sadly so) that when one has enough money, one can purchase fundamentally democratic institutions.

I do not have billions to counter Gates. What I do have is this blog and the ability to expose the purchase.

I might be without cash, but I am not without power.

Can Bill Gates buy a foundational democratic institution? Will America allow it? The fate of CCSS will provide crucial answers to those looming questions.

 


●●smf: Mercedes Schneider is, like each-and-everyone-of-us, a complicated person. A contradiction.

She is that rare thing, a public school teacher in Louisiana who doesn’t teach in a charter school and doesn’t believe in vouchers and all the rest of the Bayou State’s ®eform agenda – what a correspondent yesterday called:  “the package deal in Louisiana”.

She is an intellectual  and  Christian and a creationist who  passionately believes in encouraging critical thinking in her students. Her argument for creationism is that it creates Order from Chaos through God’s word; God spoke the world into existence. The Word and the Power of The Word being All Powerful.

Before I write this philosophy off  as God as novelist I am reminded of my own little philosophic meme; “Fiction is something that didn’t happen, not something that isn’t true.”

Schneider says:  “Corporate reformers introduce chaos. The return on this investment is also chaos.”

That is truth to set us free.


U P D A T E D | AUGUST 31ST | T H E   D A T A:

…or $5000 here,  a hundred-thousand there and a couple of million somewhere else and it all starts to add up to some serious money!


Gates Foundation Grants to Select Education and Policy Groups

Retrieved by Mercedes Schneider on August 26, 2013, from http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database  
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National Governors Association  
   
Date: March 2012  
Purpose: to support effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards through the development and dissemination of an official set of identifiers and metadata  
Amount of Grant: $37,674
   
Date: February 2011  
Purpose: to work with state policymakers on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, with special attention to effective resource reallocation to ensure complete execution, as well as rethinking state policies on teacher effectiveness  
Amount of Grant: $1,598,477
   
Date: November 2009  
Purpose: to build capacity and awareness among governors around postsecondary goals  
Amount of Grant: $512,197
   
Date: May 2008  
Purpose: to help governors improve college and career ready rates and make state education systems internationally competitive  
Amount of Grant: $2,496,814
   
Date: December 2005  
Purpose: to support the State Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum  
Amount of Grant: $62,000
   
Date: March 2005  
Purpose: to provide states with grants and assistance to develop and implement comprehensive plans for high school redesign and increase college-ready high school graduation rates  
Amount of Grant: $19,658,214
   
Date: September 2004  
Purpose: to support NGA Initiative: "Redesigning the American High School"  
Amount of Grant: $187,435
   
Date: September 2004  
Purpose: to support NGA Initiative: "Redesigning the American High School"  
Amount of Grant: $511,658
   
Date: October 2003  
Purpose: to support creation of a coherent system of education pathways that lead students through at least the second year of college  
Amount of Grant: $382,918
   
Date: November 2002  
Purpose: to support a one-day meeting to prepare a publication focusing on turning around low-performing high schools to be presented at the NGA's Winter Meeting  
Amount of Grant: $30,000
   
Date: May 2002  
Purpose: to support changes needed to transform high school education in the United States  
Amount of Grant: $275,515
Total National Governors Association: $25,752,902
Achieve, Inc.  
   
Date: June 2012  
Purpose: to strengthen and expand the ADP Network, provide more support to states for CCSS implementation, and build strategic national and statewide alliances by engaging directly with key stakeholders  
Amount of Grant: $9,297,699
   
Date: April 2012  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $3,500,000
   
Date: November 2011  
Purpose: to bolster efforts to support national and state strategies to adopt, implement and sustain college and career-ready policies  
Amount of Grant: $375,000
   
Date: February 2008  
Purpose: to support Achieve's American Diploma Project  
Amount of Grant: $12,614,352
   
Date: October 2005  
Purpose: to help states align secondary school math expectations with the demands of postsecondary education and work  
Amount of Grant: $2,148,910
   
Date: May 2004  
Purpose: to assist and encourage specific states to adopt high school graduation requirements that align with college entry requirements  
Amount of Grant: $7,747,861
   
Date: September 2001  
Purpose: to support the National Education Summit in Palisades, NY on October 9-10, 2001  
Amount of Grant: $25,000
   
Date: October 1999  
Purpose: to support comprehensive benchmarking and review of academic standards and assessments between states  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
Total Achieve, Inc.: $36,708,822
Student Achievement Partners  
   
Date: June 2012  
Purpose: to support teachers nationwide in understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $4,042,920
   
Date: June 2012  
Purpose: to grow capacity to support teachers and to strengthen operations  
Amount of Grant: $2,490,430
Total Student Achievement Partners: $6,533,350
Council of Chief State School Officers  
   
Date: July 2013  
Purpose: to CCSSO, on behalf of the PARCC and SBAC consortia to support the development of high quality assessments to measure the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $4,000,000
   
Date: June 2013  
Purpose: to support the Council of Chief State School Officers’ Institute for Transition and Transformation Services partnership with the NJ DOE to support the state’s efforts to support high quality implementation of the Common Core of State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $799,825
   
Date: April 2013  
Purpose: to support a multi-state pilot on education preparation  
Amount of Grant: $703,737
   
Date: November 2012  
Purpose: to support the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in helping States’ to build their data inoperability capability and IT leadership capacity  
Amount of Grant: $1,277,648
   
Date: October 2012  
Purpose: to support strategic planning for the sustainability of the Common Core State Standards and the two multi-state assessment consortia tasked with designing assessments aligned with those standards  
Amount of Grant: $1,100,000
Date: December 2011  
Purpose: to support NGLC Impact Strategies  
Amount of Grant: $400,381
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: to support the Common Core State Standards work  
Amount of Grant: $9,388,911
   
Date: March 2011  
Purpose: to support capacity building at SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) regarding assessment framework development and higher education engagement  
Amount of Grant: $743,331
   
Date: January 2011  
Purpose: to assist with the design of Wave 2 of the Next Generation Learning Challenges, marketing it to the field, recruiting applicants and advisors, and processing applications  
Amount of Grant: $289,899
   
Date: July 2010  
Purpose: to assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications  
Amount of Grant: $64,628
   
Date: November 2009  
Purpose: to partner with federal, state, public, and private interests to develop common, open, longitudinal data standards  
Amount of Grant: $3,185,750
   
Date: July 2009  
Purpose: to increase the leadership capacity of chiefs by focusing on standards and assessments, data systems, educator development and determining a new system of supports for student learning  
Amount of Grant: $9,961,842
   
Date: March 2007  
Purpose: to support Phase II of the National Education Data Partnership seeking to promote transparency and accessibility of education data and improve public education through data-driven decision making  
Amount of Grant: $21,642,317
   
Date: October 2005  
Purpose: to support technical assistance and research-based information to NGA Honor States pursuing high school redesign efforts  
Amount of Grant: $201,312
   
Date: April 2004  
Purpose: to provide states with sophisticated, web-based data tools that will strengthen accountability and improve results through data-driven decision making  
Amount of Grant: $25,000,000
   
Date: July 2003  
Purpose: to support activities of CCSSO around educational issues, particularly related to secondary school reform  
Amount of Grant: $249,000
   
Date: May 2002  
Purpose: to support a working conference on using the 'No Child Left Behind Act' to improve achievement of students in the middle grades  
Amount of Grant: $25,000
Total Council of Chief State School Officers: $79,033,581
National Congress of Parents and Teachers  
   
Date: May 2013  
Purpose: to educate parents and communities on the new standards and to empower leaders to create the changes they need in their school systems for Common Core implementation  
Amount of Grant: $499,962
   
Date: November 2009  
Purpose: to support implementation of a strategic plan for national PTAs to promote college-readiness, and higher student performance outcomes  
Amount of Grant: $2,000,000
   
Date: October 2008  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $5,000
Total National PTA: $2,504,962
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development  
   
Date: July 2013  
Purpose: to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $244,733
   
Date: February 2011  
Purpose: to provide teachers and school leaders with supports to implement the Common Core State Standards at the district, school, and classroom levels  
Amount of Grant: $3,024,695
Total ASCD: $2,749,695
   
Thomas B Fordham Institute  
   
Date: April 2013  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $500,000
   
Date: January 2011  
Purpose: to track state progress towards implementation of standards and to understand how what students read changes in response to the standards  
Amount of Grant: $1,002,000
   
Date: October 2009  
Purpose: to review the common core standards and develop supportive materials  
Amount of Grant: $959,116
   
Date: June 2009  
Purpose: to support the PIE Network which brings together policy research groups and state-level education advocacy organizations to advance equity, improve student achievement, share best practices and capture lessons learned  
Amount of Grant: $398,534
   
Date: July 2008  
Purpose: to support the activities of an emerging network of state level education advocacy organizations in support of a convening around strategic issues  
Amount of Grant: $155,000
   
Date: August 2006  
Purpose: to support creation of a new education policy network promoting equitable education reform  
Amount of Grant: $100,000
   
   
Date: July 2005  
Purpose: to support the Fordham Foundation in its role as a community school sponsor in Ohio to recruit other high school developers and to share best practices across the field  
Amount of Grant: $1,849,173
   
Date: July 2005  
Purpose: to inform public debate and advance academic achievement in Ohio charter schools by convening charter school leaders, producing research, and disseminating information on charter school issues  
Amount of Grant: $497,639
   
Date: July 2003  
Purpose: to strengthen Ohio's charter school program by recruiting, training, and supporting quality sponsors for existing and future charter schools  
Amount of Grant: $250,000
Total Thomas B Fordham Institute: $6,711,462
   
American Enterprise Institute  
   
Date: June 2012  
Purpose: to support their education policy work in four distinct areas: Exploring the Challenges of Common Core, Future of American Education Working Groups, Innovations in Financial Aid, and Bridging K-12 and Higher Ed with Technology  
Amount of Grant: $1,068,788
   
Date: October 2011  
Purpose: to support original research and analysis to influence the national education debates and create a supportive policy environment for reform to improve the efficiency and productivity of higher education  
Amount of Grant: $445,496
   
Date: April 2009  
Purpose: to support original research and analysis to influence the national education debates and create a supportive policy environment for dynamic reform  
Amount of Grant: $2,144,000  
   
Date: November 2007  
Purpose: to provide original research and analysis to influence the national education debate and create a supportive policy environment for dynamic reform  
Amount of Grant: $500,000
Total American Enterprise Institute : $2,014,284
   
Brookings Institute  
   
Date: May 2013  
Purpose: to conduct efforts to summarize the work of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project to date  
Amount of Grant: $77,271
   
Date: November 2011  
Purpose: to establish standards for rating teacher evaluation systems  
Amount of Grant: $494,826
   
Date: September 2011  
Purpose: to examine personalized learning, real-time student assessment, collaboration and social networking, dashboards, and K-12 innovation success stories with the goal of evaluating progress, improving implementation, and sharing best practices  
Amount of Grant: $600,000
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: to support the Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty to address aid and development effectiveness issues  
Amount of Grant: $960,515
   
Date: October 2010  
Purpose: to create a model that will enable policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and foundations to better assess the likely success of any strategy designed to improve the life prospects of children and youth  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
   
Date: August 2010  
Purpose: to conduct high-quality policy research focused on sustainable economic development in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policymaking in the United States and Africa  
Amount of Grant: $6,270,792
   
Date: July 2010  
Purpose: to develop criteria for certifying teacher evaluation systems  
Amount of Grant: $337,000
   
Date: May 2009  
Purpose: to enable availability and strengthen the quality of workforce and labor market statistics, and connect them to longitudinal higher education data at the federal level  
Amount of Grant: $350,000
   
Date: May 2009  
Purpose: to improve media coverage of secondary and post-secondary education  
Amount of Grant: $501,210
   
Date: November 2008  
Purpose: to support the planning phase of the development of a life-cycle model for estimating the impact of various policy interventions aimed at increasing social mobility  
Amount of Grant: $128,984
   
Date: July 2008  
Purpose: to bring the best African-led research and perspectives on development challenges to US policy makers by supporting the African Growth Initiative and to explore the potential of partnerships with African think tanks  
Amount of Grant: $5,774,324
   
Date: December 2007  
Purpose: to support ongoing publication of key recovery indicators as a resource and accountability tool for continued policy attention to long-term recovery in the Gulf Coast region  
Amount of Grant: $400,000
   
Date: November 2007  
Purpose: to support policy research on new federal and state policies in response to demographic and economic changes  
Amount of Grant: $1,500,000
   
Date: October 2001  
Purpose: to support a National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education through The Brookings Institution  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
Total Brookings Institute: $19,394,922
   
American Federation of Teachers  
   
Date: May 2013  
Purpose: to enable the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation to support the Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools to become a self-sustaining organization  
Amount of Grant: $150,000
   
Date: June 2012  
Purpose: to support the AFT Innovation Fund and work on teacher development and Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $4,400,000
   
Date: May 2012  
Purpose: to provide AFT conference support  
Amount of Grant: $75,000
   
Date: April 2011  
Purpose: to assist teachers in understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
   
Date: February 2011  
Purpose: to provide conference support for the conference on teacher development and evaluation systems  
Amount of Grant: $230,000
   
Date: July 2010  
Purpose: to support the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Fund and the union's teacher development and evaluation programs  
Amount of Grant: $4,021,725
   
Date: June 2010  
Purpose: for conference support  
Amount of Grant: $217,200
   
Date: June 2009  
Purpose: to support the work of a teacher evaluation task force  
Amount of Grant: $250,000
   
Date: January 2009  
Purpose: to support teacher-and union-led reform efforts to improve public education and raise student achievement  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
Total American Federation of Teachers: $11,343,925
   
National Education Association  
   
Date: July 2013  
Purpose: to support the capacity of state NEA affiliates to advance teaching and learning issues and student success in collaboration with local affiliates  
Amount of Grant: $2,426,500
   
Date: July 2013  
Purpose: to support a cohort of National Education Association Master Teachers in the development of Common Core-aligned lessons in K-5 mathematics and K-12 English Language Arts  
Amount of Grant: $3,882,600
   
Date: October 2012  
Purpose: to build and enhance teacher voice in the development and implementation of the teacher and leader Professional Growth and Effectiveness System and the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $99,997
   
Date: April 2012  
Purpose: to support the NEA Foundation Institute for Innovation in Teaching and Learning  
Amount of Grant: $550,000
   
Date: March 2010  
Purpose: to support an in-person meeting of the Planning Committee of the NEA Foundation Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching and Learning  
Amount of Grant: $38,420
   
Date: October 2009  
Purpose: to support training for local NEA affiliates to take on a leadership role in improving teaching practice and student achievement in their districts  
Amount of Grant: $358,915
Total NEA: $7,356,432
   
National Association of Secondary School Principals  
   
Date: October 2005  
Purpose: to develop a cadre of certified principal trainers in each of the NGA Honor States  
Amount of Grant: $219,980
   
Date: March 2005  
Purpose: to produce and disseminate a Leader's Guide to Adolescent Literacy that will outline what middle and high school principals can do to implement a schoolwide literacy program  
Amount of Grant: $125,000
   
Date: June 2004  
Purpose: to support the implementation of strategies and tools recommended in "Breaking Ranks II" report for 17 state associations of principals  
Amount of Grant: $503,320
   
Date: June 2003  
Purpose: to support dissemination of 'Breaking Ranks Leadership: Mapping the Change of an American Institution', the second edition of 'Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution.'  
Amount of Grant: $182,000
   
Date: March 2003  
Purpose: to identify and showcase exemplary high schools  
Amount of Grant: $1,072,738
Total National Association of Secondary School Principals: $2,103,038
American Association of School Administrators  
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: to help publicize the public release of college-going data for all high-schools and to support educators to understand the data, prepare for its release, and effectively use the information  
Amount of Grant: $331,512
   
Date: April 2011  
Purpose: to create a website that provides analysis from the user's perspective of the most prevalent student information and learning management systems  
Amount of Grant: $417,697
Total AASA: $749,209
   
Council of Great City Schools  
   
Date: March 2013  
Purpose: to develop benchmarking of instructional-related expenditures to enable strategic resource alignment in K-12  
Amount of Grant: $614,954
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: to promote and coordinate successful implementation of the new common core standards in major urban public school systems nationwide  
Amount of Grant: $4,910,988
   
Date: March 2010  
Purpose: to support the development of a cross-sector proposal to pilot test the new common core standards in a set of selected cities  
Amount of Grant: $100,000
   
Date: October 2008  
Purpose: to improve student outcomes by understanding the gaps between standards and instruction in urban contexts and by leveraging student data to improve instruction and support  
Amount of Grant: $3,735,866
Total Council of Great City Schools: $9,361,808
   
National Urban League  
   
Date: November 2012  
Purpose: to contribute important stakeholder information to guide and shape the larger Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project  
Amount of Grant: $98,471
   
Date: June 2011  
Purpose: to continue support for the NUL Equity and Excellence Project and build the capacity of the NUL Policy Institute to advocate more effectively at the federal and state levels  
Amount of Grant: $2,900,000
   
Date: October 2009  
Purpose: to more effectively leverage its affiliate network, introduce common (national) policy goals and objectives, and involve local and state NUL leaders in the national federal advocacy work of the Campaign for High School Equity  
Amount of Grant: $800,000
   
Date: September 2007  
Purpose: to participate in the Campaign for High School Equity Coalition and raise public awareness to issues and solutions to improve graduation and college readiness of students of color  
Amount of Grant: $358,267
Total National Urban League: $4,156,738
Black Alliance for Educational Options  
   
Date: November 2012  
Purpose: to contract a consultant to develop a strategic plan that enhances BAEO’s ability to advocate for college ready education and college completion  
Amount of Grant: $250,000
   
Date: November 2011  
Purpose: to support the launch of High Performing Black-led Charter Schools Initiative as a pilot initiative for schools in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia  
Amount of Grant: $99,360
   
   
Date: March 2003  
Purpose: to support the creation of new small high schools  
Amount of Grant: $4,000,000
Total Black Alliance for Educational Options : $4,349,360
Center for Education Reform  
   
Date: October 2011  
Purpose: to support Phase II of the Media Bullpen and to advance charter policy advocacy work in five states  
Amount of Grant: $600,000
   
Date: June 2010  
Purpose: to support development of a new awareness tool, "The Bullpen", that will offer and analyze real time education news  
Amount of Grant: $275,000
   
Education Trust  
   
Date: July 2013  
Purpose: to focus on redesigning grants and work study loans for Phase II of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project  
Amount of Grant: $350,431
   
Date: November 2012  
Purpose: to support the Access to Success program in helping to provide data, evidence, best practices, and training to campuses in support of continuous improvement in providing equal opportunity for access and success to underrepresented minorities  
Amount of Grant: $800,000
   
Date: November 2012  
Purpose: to inform state and local policies on teacher evaluation as a significant and valuable tool  
Amount of Grant: $2,101,177
   
Date: September 2012  
Purpose: to begin pressure testing possible education finance reform solutions—both substantively and politically  
Amount of Grant: $304,971
   
Date: September 2010  
Purpose: to support a group of major university and community college system heads to build better data systems, financial aid policies, and student support services  
Amount of Grant: $1,060,000
   
Date: January 2010  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $1,000,000
   
Date: September 2009  
Purpose: to develop a set of open-source literacy courses that align to the Common Core State Standards  
Amount of Grant: $2,039,526
   
Date: November 2007  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $10,000,000
   
Date: November 2007  
Purpose: to increase access and success, particularly for low-income and minority students and bring systems together to work on critical actions to accelerate improvement  
Amount of Grant: $1,507,077
   
Date: October 2007  
Purpose: to ensure that all students in California graduate college and work ready, and that the state invests and targets the necessary resources to get them there  
Amount of Grant: $7,750,000
   
Date: August 2006  
Purpose: to support technical assistance to Los Angeles Unified School District for development of a high school progress report  
Amount of Grant: $111,376
   
Date: June 2006  
Purpose: to develop regional American Diploma Projects in Sacramento /Silicon Valley/San Bernardino region  
Amount of Grant: $94,500
   
Date: March 2006  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $2,200,000
   
Date: November 2005  
Purpose: to support the National Association of (University) System Heads to engage higher education leaders in high school redesign  
Amount of Grant: $369,150
   
Date: September 2004  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $1,200,000
   
Date: July 2003  
Purpose: to support research and dissemination of findings about effective practices in high-performing high schools and institutions of higher education, particularly those serving high concentrations of low-income and minority young people  
Amount of Grant: $2,000,000
   
Date: May 2002  
Purpose: to provide matching contribution for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $100,000
   
Date: December 2003  
Purpose: for the production of the "California High School Status Report"  
Amount of Grant: $201,820
   
Date: August 2010  
Purpose: for general operating support  
Amount of Grant: $8,300,000
Total Center for Education Reform : $42,365,028
Center on American Progress  
   
Date: July 2008  
Purpose: to expand work on improving the quality and effectiveness of human capital in the public education sector  
Amount of Grant: $1,198,248
Total Center on American Progress: $1,198,248
   
GRAND TOTAL GATES FOUNDATION GRANTS: $263,189,518

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