by Mercedes Schneider from her EduBlog deutsch29 | http://bit.ly/16QoQFB
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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! | |
| Retrieved by Mercedes Schneider on August 26, 2013, from http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database | |
[ Spreadsheet by smf for 4LAKidsNews/Math by Excel } | |
| 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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