NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's wealthiest college drop-out on Wednesday donated millions of dollars to help New York City students stay in high school.
Bill Gates (news - web sites), chairman of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (news - web sites), gave $51.2 million to the city to help create 67 small new high schools for minority, low-income students.
The aim of the gift is to "take students in high schools and prepare them for college," Gates told a news conference at a Bronx high school.
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