Louisiana teacher: How Bill Gates has bought and paid for Common Core Standards

Louisiana public school teacher Mercedes Schneider has done a considerable amount of research into the forces that are driving the implementation of Common Core Standards in the United States.

In this blog post from August, Ms. Schneider notes that Bill Gates has poured (at that point) $147.9 million into the four organizations that are pushing Common Core. She also demolishes the myth that the governors, who accepted millions in Gates money, had much to do with the formation of Common Core Standards:

t seems that Gates paid CGCS $100,000 to propose a pilot study of CCSS in 2010 (not to conduct a pilot study– just to draft the idea for a pilot). Fifteen months later, there is no mention of a “proposal” much less a pilot study materializing; instead, Gates pays CGCS to “just go ahead” and “coordinate successful implementation” of the untested CCSS.

So much Gates cash, and so many hands willing to accept it.

Bill Gates likes Common Core. So, he is purchasing it. In doing so, Gates demonstrates (sadly so) that when one has enough money, one can purchase fundamentally democratic institutions.

I do not have billions to counter Gates. What I do have is this blog and the ability to expose the purchase.

I might be without cash, but I am not without power.

Can Bill Gates buy a foundational democratic institution? Will America allow it? The fate of CCSS will provide crucial answers to those looming questions.

Bill Gates is doing this on a national basis and affecting Missouri in the process, That is all the more reason why we should never discount, despite his recent failures, the efforts of retired billionaire Rex Sinquefield to buy Missouri's government and change our educational system.