The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Annenberg's $500-Million Failed to Change Schools, Report Charges

By MEG SOMMERFELD

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.

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