By Victor Skinner at EAGNews.org

UGANDA – The government of Uganda is working to shut down dozens of for-profit Bridge International Academies, a low-cost private school system funded by Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The Uganda government already ordered more than 60 Bridge schools in the country to be shut down over a variety of allegations, from employing teachers who are not qualified to unsanitary school conditions to a sex education program promoting pornography and homosexuality, the East Africa Monitor reports.

Critics also claim the Bridge approach to education is overly scripted and standardized, which is the same argument cited by opponents to the Gates Foundation funded Common Core national standards in the United States.

“You can’t call it an education that Bridge is offering,” Global Campaign for Education president Camilla Croso told CNN.

“You have technology — like tablets — often standing in place of teachers and you have very scripted classes that tell the teachers exactly what to do and when — so you don’t have any sort of autonomy and you can’t improvise.”

Uganda minister of finance, Matia Kasaija, recently highlighted some of issues at a graduation ceremony for Martyrs’ University. Matia said Bridge Academies are “using schools to apply and promote sexual education” that is “conveying the gospel of homosexuality to our children,” according to the news site.

“The Ministry does not know what is being taught in these schools which is a point of concern to (the) government,” Director of Education Standards Huzaifa Mutazindwa told CNN…. read more here