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  School grant program boosts Gates’ influence

  October 26, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform …

• Gates Foundation will boost giving in ’09

  January 27, 2009 in City on Page A6 SEATTLE – The assets of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation lost 20 percent of their value in 2008. But Bill Gates says the foundation will increase its giving in …

• Gates says foundation will boost spending in 2009

  January 26, 2009 in Business, Region The assets of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation lost 20 percent of their value in 2008. But Bill Gates says the foundation will increase its giving in 2009 instead …