New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo receives backlash for tapping tech billionaires Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to help rebuild the state

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• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that he's enlisting Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to help rebuild New York. 
• Gates will help with education and virtual learning, and Schmidt will work on "reimagining" the state as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. 
• The move prompted backlash from teachers and lawmakers, who said the tech giants might not be the best people to make decisions for New Yorkers. 
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking help from Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in "reimagining" how New York's schools, transit systems, and other functions can recover and improve after the pandemic, but New Yorkers to lawmakers to teachers have criticized the move. 

While Cuomo has said the pandemic could be used as an opportunity to improve New York's systems, State Sen. Mike Gianaris said enlisting the two tech giants "is not good."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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