[Am-info] Boston group gets nearly $6M from Gates foundation

[Erick Andrews]

Actually it's more than just Boston.

Does anyone know how up-and-up this is?  Or are there 
strings attached, like you gotta install Windows everywhere?

http://www.businesstoday.com/business/business/gate03202002.htm

Excerpts:

"The charitable foundation created by Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates 
unveiled $40 million in grants yesteday to build 70 schools that 
combine high school with college in an effort to improve graduation 
rates and college attendance for disadvantaged teens. Boston-based 
Jobs for the Future was one of eight organizations selected to lead 
the nationwide push to create ``early colleges'' - mold-breaking
institutions designed to offer college-level courses to 11th- and 
12th-graders, grant high school diplomas and offer two-year
associate's degrees.

[...]

"The $40 million fund pool comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates 
Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation
and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Seven other agencies will spearhead 
the creation of early colleges in the mid-Atlantic, South, Midwest 
and Western regions of the nation."