Later, in a broad interview with The Washington Post, Gates also lamented the state of the District’s struggling public schools, which have received hundreds of millions of dollars from his foundation, but had high praise for efforts by Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.
Gates’s foundation funds charter schools, scholarships and other programs for the city’s poorest students.
“It’s a very hard job, and whether it’s the facilities or the personnel issues, somebody had to come in and really point out that the students are not getting what they deserve,” he said of Rhee. “The irony [is] that it’s almost the highest spending per pupil in the country, and it’s almost the worst set of outcomes of students in the country — and this is the nation’s capital. You’d think that in terms of effective spending of dollars and outcomes, that D.C. would be a model city, and, in fact, it has been the exact opposite.”
Guess it was that way with Bush also.