The William Penn Foundation will give $15 million to fund innovations in Philadelphia public, private, and charter schools over the next three years.
President Jeremy Nowak said that the foundation would focus on closing the achievement gap for low-income students, with an emphasis on global standards and this effort is in line with the goals of the current School Reform Commission, overhauling the district, closing struggling schools and expanding strong ones.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.