Common Core Concerns Motivate AFT to Find Alternate Funding Source

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Randi Weingarten-president of the American Federation of Teachers, recently announced that the union will no longer accept money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for its Innovation Fund. The fund was founded in 2009 and has received up to $1 million each year in grants from Gates ever since.

The Innovation Fund has been used for efforts to help teachers implement the Common Core standards, however, union members have expressed a high level of mistrust in the manner in which the standards are being implemented as well as the fact that standardized tests are already aligned to the poorly rolled out standards.

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Truth in American Education: AFT Ends Gates Funding Over Common Core Concerns


Further Reading:

Are We Drinking the Common Core Kool Aid?



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