FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2009, file photo Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates speaks at the "Get Schooled" conference hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom in Los Angeles. The Gates Foundation has been by far the biggest player in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions of dollars to sway how the federal government distributes $5 billion in grants to overhaul public schools. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FILE)

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