Comments on: Billionaires gather in Arizona to discuss giving http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/08/billionaires-gather-in-arizona-to-discuss-giving/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/08/billionaires-gather-in-arizona-to-discuss-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-61560 Robin Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:01 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/08/billionaires-gather-in-arizona-to-discuss-giving/#comment-61560 Sadly philanthropic money (working in concert with the Fed Dept of Education) is transforming education in ways voters might never have approved and definitely thwarts the democratic process by bypassing the citizenry entirely. Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post often details Bill Gates' influence: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/gates-spends-millions-to-sway.html www.susanohanian.org www.missourieducationwatchdog.com www.heritage.org/standards Sadly philanthropic money (working in concert with the Fed Dept of Education) is transforming education in ways voters might never have approved and definitely thwarts the democratic process by bypassing the citizenry entirely. Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post often details Bill Gates’ influence:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/gates-spends-millions-to-sway.html

http://www.susanohanian.org
http://www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
http://www.heritage.org/standards

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