Sentences with phrase «significant philanthropic investment»

All of these schools received financial support through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges, the earliest and most significant philanthropic investment in personalized learning to date.

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Although the absolute amount of philanthropic investment in education ($ 1.8 billion in 2012) is significant, this funding represents less than 1 % of total public K - 12 funding, raising questions about the level of impact philanthropy can have at a systemic level.

It has enjoyed significant, long - standing private investment and oversight from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, perhaps the country's largest philanthropic entity dedicated primarily to improving the quality of early childhood education, and a successful history serving children six weeks to kindergarten transition.