Posted on 05/26/2014 11:05:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
* The Facebook founder pledged $100million to Newark schools in 2010 to bring sweeping educational reforms
* However, most of the money has been spent on labor contracts and consulting fees
* The money has had little impact on student performance so far
In his first major show of philanthropy, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a splash by announcing his plan to give $100 million to help turn around Newark, New Jersey's public schools in an appearance on Oprah in 2010.
But nearly four years later, Zuckerberg's money has run out, having been spent mostly on labor contracts and consulting fees with no noticeable improvement in student performance, a report in the New Yorker reveals.
'Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read,' Vivian Cox Fraser, the president of the Urban League of Essex County, told the magazine.
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Yes, of course. What the hell did you think was going to happen?
Isnt this the guy who plans to spend $100 Million to help with AMNESTY for the illegal aliens ???
$100 million dollars of private vouchers would have made a real and long lasting difference.
I had one like the picture below. It wasn't just for the ghettos in those days. Everybody under the age of 20 seemed to be lugging one of those around.
You had to make sure you were near a power outlet though because those monsters really sucked those "D" batteries down fast.
Zuckerberg might as well have taken a wheelbarrow of $100 bills and shoveled them into a roaring fireplace.
“Federal Judge Russel Clark spent BILLIONS of Missourian taxpayer dollars on the Kansas City school system in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The money might as well have been thrown into the sea.
See Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment”
This is a long read, but very informative - especially when it come to unintended consequences of liberal policy.
Most have never heard of the KCMO school experiment/debacle...because it debunks liberal slogans about spending more for schools.
You could throw a billion dollars at those public schools, and it wouldn’t make a dent in student achievement. Private and charter schools could maybe help 20-30%. The rest are doomed by low IQs and bad attitudes.
Brings me back memories too.
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