“The real secretary of education is Bill Gates,” MSNBC website reads.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the greatest institution carrying out school reforms, allocating about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.

It is taking exceptional measures to influence education policy, spending millions to control the distribution of $5 bln grants by U.S. government.

“The foundation offers $250,000 apiece to help states apply, so long as they agree with the foundation's approach,” e-source informs referring to Associated Press.

“Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone welcomes: paying teachers based on student test scores, charter schools that operate independently of local school boards and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state,” the website reads.

Some people think Gates foundation shouldn't associate with the government.