Mark Zuckerberg Gave $100 Million to Newark Schools

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Mark Zuckerberg Gave $100 Million to Newark Schools #157371 05/26/2014 05:39 AM 05/26/2014 05:39 AM
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airforce OP Administrator Senior Member Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 25,058 Tulsa	So, you would think Newark schools have improved considerably, wouldn't you? Well, you would be wrong . Union contracts ate it all up. Quote n his first major show of philanthropy, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a splash by announcing his plan to give $100million 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.... Gee, nobody saw that coming, did they? Onward and upward, airforce

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Gave $100 Million to Newark Schools #157372 05/26/2014 05:53 AM 05/26/2014 05:53 AM
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Huskerpatriot Senior Member Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 1,603 Omaha Nebraska	He DID get a major tax deduction for his charity, and he also gained the much coveted "liberal credentials" status. This exempts him from IRS audits, regulatory scrutiny, and negative stories in the press. Imagine if he had donated $100m to a "school voucher campaign" or a "homeschool scholarship"... This would have earned him the "enemy of the state" status... With the IRS, regulators, and the press hounding his every move. It is nothing better than a mob shakedown. "Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)