| Notes | The other name, short for Big Picture Company, is the name of the non-profit founder and manager of the Met schools. Originally incubated by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, BP is also the recent recipient of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support scaling up the Met beyond Providence. Met-alike schools opened this year in Oakland and El Dorado Hills, California, and also in Federal Way, Washington. Others are scheduled to open next year in Detroit, Chicago, and Denver. Meanwhile, the Big Picture Company is currently preparing a proposal for additional Gates funding to open still other Met-alike schools.1 |