After Microsoft got cornered by the Clinton administration, when Reno tried to force him to provide a backdoor for government access to all his computers, he got a bit gun-shy.
Gates is a software whiz and is basically unschooled in both politics and education. So he has to depend on others to supply his information for him.
Guess who stepped forward to give him all the info he was going to need to work with?
He hired ex-Clinton administrators to run his foundation, because he didn't know any better.
I know of a top-notch and substantially proven reading education group who approached Bill Gates about their reading program and they were demised out of hand after his own "experts" told him that was not the way to go.
Instead, his new-found "experts" steered him toward Bill Ayers brand of Common Core.
No wonder Bill Ayers is crowing.
Oh no! Gates demised them! Can’t resist a joke but your post cleared up much of what I didn’t understand about common core...