April 20, 2000
Annenberg's $500-Million Failed to Change Schools, Report Charges
The $500-million school-reform effort financed by the philanthropist Walter Annenberg has done little to improve education, contends a report released last week.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, in Washington, issued a report analyzing the Annenberg program, which was begun in 1993 to help urban and rural schools.
The Fordham report, which includes case studies of three cities that received money -- New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia -- concludes
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