{"id":22623,"date":"2012-11-01T23:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/good-that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:37:10","slug":"good-that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/good-that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22623 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/good-that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting\/attachment\/22624\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mctudojAni1qjq5r9o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/good.tumblr.com\/post\/34783041613\/that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting-from\">good<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/posts\/that-4-billion-george-lucas-is-getting-from-disney-he-s-giving-it-to-education\">That $4 Billion George Lucas Is Getting From Disney? He\u2019s Giving it to Education<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; by Liz Dwyer<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With the news that George Lucas is selling Lucasfilm to Disney for a reported $4.05 billion, there\u2019s been plenty of speculation over who will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VII and what Lucas, who owns 100 percent of Lucasfilm, will do with all that cash. Will Jar Jar Binks return? No plans for the film have been shared, but a spokesperson for Lucasfilm told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/disney-deal-george-lucas-will-384947\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>that most of the money will go toward an education foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lucas\u2019 commitment to education is nothing new. Over 20 years ago Lucas established the George Lucas Educational Foundation, which is \u201cdedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.\u201d In part, the foundation runs the nonprofit website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/\">Edutopia<\/a>, which produces the excellent profiles of innovative, effective schools in their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/schools-that-work\">Schools That Work<\/a>\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And in 2010 Lucas also signed on to Warren Buffet and Bill Gates Giving Pledge, which asks extraordinarily wealthy individuals to give the bulk of their money to philanthropic causes. At the time Lucas released a statement saying he was \u201cdedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education,\u201d because \u201cit is the key to the survival of the human race.\u201d Lucas continued, \u201cwe have to plan for our collective future\u2014and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Whether Lucas will pour more resources into GLEF and Edutopia, or fund other initiatives around the country\u2014similar to how the Gates Foundation has become a major player in the education space\u2014is anyone\u2019s guess. But with Lucas\u2019 interest in whole child-based, innovative education practices and the integration of the arts in schools, it\u2019s pretty exciting to imagine what kind of shifts in our education system could result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good: That $4 Billion George Lucas Is Getting From Disney? He\u2019s Giving it to Education\u00a0&#8211; by Liz Dwyer With the news that George Lucas is selling Lucasfilm to Disney for a reported $4.05 billion, there\u2019s been plenty of speculation over who will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VII and what Lucas, who owns 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5ST","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22625,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions\/22625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}