Libby Quaid

Recent stories written by Libby Quaid

School grant program boosts Gates' influence (10/26/2009)

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 movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.

Obama's in-school address assailed (9/4/2009)

DALLAS – President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.