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AFT (and Four Foundations!) Flesh Out the Innovation Fund
Published on the Education Week blog “Teacher Beat”: April 28, 2009
By Stephen Sawchuk
Four private foundations — the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation — will partner with the American Federation of Teachers through its Innovation Fund, representatives of the foundations and the AFT announced this afternoon.
The private-foundation contributions, in addition to the AFT's down payment of $1 million, bring the fund's total to $2.8 million. Funds are available for local affiliates to "incubate promising ideas to improve schools," AFT President Randi Weingarten said.
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