Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Below is a list of organizations for whom Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is listed as a donor. Click each to find out more about the organization.
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Specializes in turnarounds of Chicago schools. Critics cite close ties to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and claim he is turning over Chicago Public Schools to ASUL. Hires uncertified teachers -- Teach for America types. ... more
Acelero Learning
Broad, Gates, and the Kellogg Foundation are turning our treasured and successful Head Start program into a for-profit venture . . . literally taking candy from babies. ... more
Achieve, Inc.
Achieve, Inc. is led by a Board of Directors consisting of governors and business leaders. For the past 15 years it has been one of the most influential education policy organizations in the nation. Since 1999 Achieve Inc. has received more than $37,000,000 from the Gates Foundation alone to lead the charge in implementing the Common Core State Standards, influencing education policy, requiring high-stakes testing of students, and creating accountability and evaluation models for public schools and teachers. ... more
Achievement First
New York and Connecticut charter school network that hopes to expand into other states. It has been cited for its extremely strict discipline policies and bullying of students. Two parents speak out in the movie The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman. ... more
Achievement Network, The (ANet)
The Achievement Network reform organization collects and analyzes data of poor and minority students to determine the size of the achievement gap. ... more
Advance Illinois
Astroturf education policy organization funded by the Gates Foundation and others involved in abolishing teacher's collective bargaining rights and advancing policy in tune with that promoted by the Billionaire Boys Club. ... more
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Alliance for Excellent Education
Alliance for Excellent Education favors Common Core State Standards, digital learning, and NCLB (ESEA) waivers. President Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia, heads a board of highly paid executives, “Waivers offer states a tremendous opportunity; rather than being constrained by the decade-old No Child Left Behind Act, states can design and implement innovative reforms that improve their education systems and more effectively prepare their students for college and a career,” he said, even though the A4EE has produced research showing that such waivers push kids out of high school and that leads to lower graduation rates. ... more
America Achieves aka Education Champions for All
America Achieves aka Education Champions for All is funded by the Billionaire Boys to push Common Core standards. Notable: $1,650,000 to New Leaders, Inc. and a $915,000+ loan to CEO Jon Schnur in 2010. ... more
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
AEI is one of the nation's most successful neoconservative think tanks. It has been extremely successful in placing its people in influential governmental positions, particularly in the Bush Administration. ... more
American Federation of Teachers
The AFT Education Foundation has accepted millions from the Gates Foundation and the Department of Education to acquiesce to the will of "reformers." ... more
Aspire Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Develop
At one time a revered institution by educators, this organization has become a product mill for the reform movement. ... more
Bellwether Education Partners
Bellwether Education Partners is yet another "think tank" supporting the education reform agenda to privatize our public schools. Formerly known as ConnectEd Partners, Inc. ... more
Center for Teaching Quality
In the business of advancing the teaching profession according to the policies of it's funders who promote a "reform" agenda. ... more
College Ready Promise
Charter management organizations (CMO) that have privatized many schools in California. ... more
DC Prep Public Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
DonorsChoose.org
DonorsChoose.org is a great idea, but the organization has 12 employees who make over $100,000 a year and only 75% of the dollars donated actually make it to the classroom. According to its 2011 IRS Form 990, only $25 million of $33 million donated was spent on classroom materials. ... more
Education for Change
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Education Innovation Laboratory
Although EdLabs claims to have no political agenda, its goals mirror those of the "reformers." Some achievements: Our evaluation of Harlem Children’s Zone showed that SCHOOLS ALONE can close the achievement gap -- as if the HCZ is just a school. ... more
Education Trust
The Education Trust pushes the agenda of corporate reformers. It favors corporate charter schools, minimally trained teachers, and accountability through the high stakes testing. ... more
Equity Project Charter School, The (TEP)
According the 990's filed with the IRS for the past three years, TEP has paid no one over $100,000 a year, has received funding from private sources, and has 480 students. Publicly, TEP claims to pay teachers $125,000 base salary plus up to $25,000 in bonuses, to not accept private funding, to enroll 125 students. ... more
Foundation for Excellence InEducation
Jeb Bush's education nonprofit. This is not a typo. The legal name of the organization is Foundation for Excellence InEducation. Signature initiatives include testing, testing, testing, labeling schools, deprofessionalizing teaching, and cutting funding for education.
"Aptly named FEE, Bush's group is backed by many of the same for-profit school corporations that have funded ALEC and vote as equals with its legislators on templates to change laws governing America's public schools. FEE is also bankrolled by many of the same hard-right foundations bent on privatizing public schools that have funded ALEC. And, they have pushed many of the same changes to the law, which benefit their corporate benefactors and satisfy the free market fundamentalism of the billionaires whose tax-deductible charities underwrite the agenda of these two groups." Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, 11/2012.
Institutional funders should note that an organization’s inclusion on GuideStar.org does not satisfy IRS Rev. Proc. 2011-33 for identifying supporting organizations. ... more
Friendship Public Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Green Dot Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Harlem Success Academy Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classroom of our nation's poorest children. ... more
High Tech High
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Inner City Education Foundation
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
KIPP Academy
Flagship charter management corporation given life by the Billionaire Boys Club and touted as a model by reformers. KIPP schools serve mostly segregated, low income populations and require longer school days, weeks, and years to teach a test driven curriculum. ... more
KIPP Always Mentally Prepared Academy
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
KIPP DC
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
KIPP Foundation
The KIPP Foundation supports KIPP schools, recruits and hires uncertified teachers and administrators at great expense to donors and taxpayers. ... more
KIPP Infinity Charter School
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
KIPP NYC
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
KIPP Star
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
KnowledgeWorks
Goal is to fundamentally change secondary and the college delivery system -- merging the two. Promotes Early College High High School and STEM. ... more
League of Education Voters
Astroturf organization, NOT to be confused with the very excellent League of Women Voters whose good name they piggyback on, that influences education policy favoring the privatization of public schools in Washington state. Pro charter schools, high stakes testing, and Teach for America types. Although it claims to be citizen-founded and citizen-funded, LEV Foundation accepted nearly 6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2001 to 2011. League of Education Voters Political Action Committee (LEV PAC) founded in 2012. ... more
League of Education Voters Foundation (LEVF)
Together with its sister organization, League of Education Voters, LEV Foundation advocates for the privatization of public schools in Washington state. The Foundation is the moneyed component that has been awarded millions from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ... more
Lighthouse Academies
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Mastery Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
National Council on Teacher Quality
Teacher bashing organization that seeks to influence policy and regulation of the teaching profession. ... more
New Teacher Project
Michelle Rhee founded TNTP after a short stint at Teach for America. Since the Washington, D.C. cheating scandal you'll find little mention of her name in connection to the organization. The New Teacher Project is much like Teach for America. The organization staffs schools with uncertified teachers. ... more
NewSchools Venture Fund
Teacher bashing organization that has been successful in excluding educators from the education process. It investors have extraordinary access to extraordinary amounts of our tax dollars while having no education expertise. ... more
Noble Street Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Partnership to Uplift Communities
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Perspectives Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
PTA (National Congress of Parents and Teachers)
The national PTA has been instrumental in bringing parents and teachers together in communities across the country to support children and schools. In recent years, the organization's decisions have been influenced by the dictates and funding of billionaire foundations. ... more
Public Agenda Foundation
Conducts research and publishes opinions paid for by our richest citizens. ... more
Stand for Children
Promotes itself as a grassroots organization but receives substantial funding from rich venture philanthropists who rather deceptively recruit ordinary citizens to advocate for corporate education and the deregulation of the teaching profession. ... more
Teach for America
Teach for America is an elitist organization that recruits non-teachers to educate America's most vulnerable students at a premium price. Research shows that the program does harm to children, does not close the achievement gap as claimed, and costs taxpayers millions. Founder Wendy Kopp has no education training or expertise, but she is extremely effective at asking very rich people, corporations, and the federal government for millions of dollars and getting it. Teach for America perpetuates the myth that anyone with a college degree is a teacher. It is a recruiting and placement service. Until 2011, eligibility requirements stipulated that education majors and licensed teachers were prohibited from joining. TFA has gone to great expense to market the company as the “peace corps” of teaching. It is not. Its placements are not teachers and not volunteers. Recruits agree to teach for two years and then move on to a real career. In addition to a regular teacher's salary, TFA placements are given two $5,000 awards to pay for college expenses. The awards are provided by the federal government through Americorps, whose funding is appropriated to aid volunteer organizations in America's poorest communities. An exception has be made for TFA. TFA “teachers” are given preferable access to teaching jobs over regular teachers especially in public charter schools funded by Gates and Broad. TFA hires highly paid administrators, who also are not educators, to “coach” and assist its placements. ... more
The New Teacher Center
Founded in 1998 by teacher, the program has morphed into something new. Slick, canned, generic, pricey programs with no mention of the "experts" who developed the program. Online mentors are provided for new teachers. Promotes reform policies favored by the Billionaire Boys Club. ... more
The New Teacher Project
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization promotes the employment of personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Uncommon Knowledge and Achievement, Inc.
Organization doesn't appear to have a website, but is also doing business as UKA Teacher U which connects to a website called Relay Graduate School of Education. ... more
Uncommon Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Urban Teacher Residency United
Unlike the medical model, residents have not taken education courses, but are placed in classrooms with teachers to practice without requisite teaching knowledge. ... more
