Gates Seeks to Leverage 'Race to Top' Aid
Washington
Not content with shaping education directly through schools, the biggest player in the school reform movement has an eye on moving education policy.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to spend millions to influence the way the federal government distributes $5 billion in grants...
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