Bill and Melinda Gates have launched an education-based lobbying group. This move comes right after the initiation of negotiations in Congress in relation to the reauthorisation of the Higher Education Act, the integral federal law dealing with student financial aid.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have expressed their plans to invest in professional development trainers who will train teachers on “high quality” curriculum. According to the Education Week Website, the announcement was made out of the curricular education improvement strategy drafted by the foundation in 2017, as a major pivot away from their previous area of concentration; teacher performance.