In fall 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Oprah that he'd be making a generous gift to Newark, N.J. As Oprah said in her Oprah way, "one . . . hundred . . . million . . . dollars" would be given to Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the three began the Startup:Education foundation.
The plan was to turn Newark into what Zuckerberg (pictured) called "a symbol of educational excellence for the whole nation," spent on retaining the best teachers, and creating environments that would produce successful students and, one day, graduates.
Between 2010 and 2012, The New Yorker reports that "more than $20 million of Zuckerberg's gift and matching donations went to consulting firms with various specialties: public relations, human resources, communications, data analysis, [and] teacher evaluation." Many of the consultants were being paid upwards of $1,000 a day.
"Everybody's getting paid but Raheem still can't read," ...
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$20 million dollars for consultants. $31 million dollars for the teachers.
Anyone wonder how much it would cost to get Raheem reading?
Uno