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Gates to Focus More Attention on School Reform

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates announced June 15 that he would leave his day-to-day role with the company in two years to focus more of his attention on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the New York Times, Gates will remain as chairman and maintain his large holding in the company.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - the world's largest philanthropic organization - is dedicated to improving health and education and has been a leading provider of charitable ed-tech funding in recent years. According to eSchool News, the foundation has given over $31 million to public schools in Chicago and North Carolina. Education leaders hope that Microsoft's loss will be education's gain.

"He has the ability to be heard," said Marc Liebman, superintendent of the Berryessa Union School District in San Joe, CA. "And what he says might have the potential to move ed tech way beyond email and PowerPoint to applications that really change education as we know it," Liebman told eSchool News.

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