Teacher training, technology education focus of $350M Gates grants
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $350 million over the next three years to educational programs both in the state of Washington and across the country, the New York Times reports.
Although details are still being developed, foundation officials told the newspaper the grants would be divided into four areas:
$100 million will be available to administrators across the nation to provide leadership development that improves student learning through technology;
$70 million will go to teacher training, with more than half -- $45 million -- used in Washington state to train about 1,000 teachers per year for the next three;
Schools will also have access to $30 million in grants;
$150 million remaining will be used in 30 school districts -- ten of them in Washington.
Due to gifts from Microsoft CEO Gates and his wife, the couple's foundation now has more than $21 billion in assets and is the world's wealthiest foundation, the article reports.
The foundation has recently pledged large amounts of money to scholarship programs for minority students, international vaccination efforts and programs that bring libraries online.
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