Small?school has been fostered, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $1.8 billion in American schools, helping?to?open?about 1,000 small?schools.

Small school has been fostered, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $1.8 billion in American schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools.

School funding could also be made dependent on how many parents choose to send their children to a particular school, so that good schools would expand and bad ones would close or be taken over.