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Bill Gates to help “reimagine” NY schools
In his Tuesday briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the state government will collaborate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a blueprint to “reimagine” the state’s public schools after they reopen in September.
Business Insider reports that Cuomo did not go into explicit detail over potential reforms, but did suggest a move to remote teaching by questioning the need for physical classrooms:
“The old model of everybody goes and sits in a classroom and the teacher is in front of that classroom, and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms – why, with all the technology you have?”
According to the state’s press
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