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January 17, 2017      3:22 PM

Charles Butt contributes $100 million for school and leadership training

“So often today we get interested in policies and curricula and buzz words and ideas that have very little to do with the children sitting in the seats of our schools…We need to come back to square one.”

Grocery store magnate Charles Butt has provided Texas with the largest single gift for public education since the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation committed $130 million in 2007.

Butt’s $100 million gift will create The Holdsworth Center, a non-profit organization based in Austin to provide continuing support for school district improvement. Unlike the Gates Foundation money, which was rolled into the public-private Texas High School Project, The Holdsworth Center will function independently of state agency oversight.  

By Kimberly Reeves

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