Gates Foundation
Melinda and Bill Gates donated millions to New York City schools. Skeptics stated that throwing money at a sinking ship would produce no results. They were wrong. Positive results are trickling in as the schools have had a few years to work.
New York City has schools with 3300 students and graduation rates of 31 percent. The schools were filled with behavior problems, truancy, violence and low scores. The money donated by Melinda and Bill Gates was used to break up those schools into smaller schools. Not only were the schools broken up into smaller chunks of 300-600 students but the formatting was changed.
New Format
The New York schools that received the Gates funding were broken up into smaller specialized schools. The schools within schools allowed students to select mini-schools:
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