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Schools Matter: What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

Schools Matter: What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

Just one day after his inauguration, President Obama issued an executive order outlining his Ethics Pledge. The Ethics Pledge is designed to establish baseline expectations about the behavior of top officials. It is also designed as a way to ensure the public trust and deter both real and perceived conflicts of interest.

The executive order banned lobbyists from entering government and put restrictions on all other