After Complaints, Gates Foundation Opens Education Aid Offer to All States

Last July, Bill Gates sat down with lawmakers from 15 states in a conference room in Philadelphia, and he had good news. His foundation would give their states up to $250,000 each, he said, to help them prepare the kind of sparkling grant proposals that could help their states win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: http://www.gatesfoundation.org

By SAM DILLON

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/education/28educ.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper