WASHINGTON >> Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank H. McCourt Jr. is giving Georgetown University $100 million, the largest donation in the school’s history, to create a public-policy school.
The Washington Post first reported the gift by McCourt, who graduated from Georgetown in 1975. McCourt, who lives in New York City, sold the Dodgers last year for a reported $2.15 billion after taking the team into bankruptcy in 2011.
The donation surpasses the previous record gift to Georgetown — $87 million — in 2010.
The new school, which launches in October, will be named the McCourt School of Public Policy. It will focus on analysis of massive data files from government agencies and other sources to research education, health, poverty and other subjects.
