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05-14-2014, 02:39 PM
Who could've guessed? :rolleyes:
Report: $100M donation to Newark schools largely gone
May 14, 2014 7:44 AM
NEWARK - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million pledge in 2010 to help rebuild Newark's schools has largely run dry, according to a New Yorker magazine investigative report.
Four years later, it’s uncertain if the gift praised by Gov. Chris Christie and then-Newark mayor Cory Booker will have much of a lasting positive effect on city schools.
The New Yorker piece, titled “Schooled” by Dale Russakoff, *looked at how the historic pledge came to be, where the money is being spent and what reforms are taking place in the city’s schools.
The report found more than $20 million of Zuckerberg’s gift and matching donations went to consulting firms with various specialties, including public relations, human resources, communications, data analysis, teacher evaluation.*
"Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read," Vivian Cox Fraser, the president of the Urban League of Essex County, told The New Yorker.
According to the New Yorker, “despite millions of dollars spent on community engagement — [officials] have yet to hold tough, open conversations with the people of Newark about exactly how much money the district has, where it is going, and what students aren’t getting as a result."
http://newjersey.news12.com/news/report-100m-donation-to-newark-schools-largely-gone-1.8016780
The New Yorker - by Dale Russakoff
May 19, 2014:
...Almost four years later, Newark has fifty new principals, four new public high schools, a new teachers’ contract that ties pay to performance, and an agreement by most charter schools to serve their share of the neediest students. But residents only recently learned that the overhaul would require thousands of students to move to other schools, and a thousand teachers and more than eight hundred support staff to be laid off within three years. In mid-April, seventy-seven members of the clergy signed a letter to Christie requesting a moratorium on the plan, citing “venomous” public anger and “the moral imperative” that people have power over their own destiny. Booker, now a U.S. senator, said in a recent interview that he understood families’ fear and anger: “My mom—she would’ve been fit to be tied with some of what happened.” But he characterized the rancor as “a sort of nadir,” and predicted that in two or three years Newark could be a national model of urban education. “That’s pretty monumental in terms of the accomplishment that will be.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_russakoff
Report: $100M donation to Newark schools largely gone
May 14, 2014 7:44 AM
NEWARK - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million pledge in 2010 to help rebuild Newark's schools has largely run dry, according to a New Yorker magazine investigative report.
Four years later, it’s uncertain if the gift praised by Gov. Chris Christie and then-Newark mayor Cory Booker will have much of a lasting positive effect on city schools.
The New Yorker piece, titled “Schooled” by Dale Russakoff, *looked at how the historic pledge came to be, where the money is being spent and what reforms are taking place in the city’s schools.
The report found more than $20 million of Zuckerberg’s gift and matching donations went to consulting firms with various specialties, including public relations, human resources, communications, data analysis, teacher evaluation.*
"Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read," Vivian Cox Fraser, the president of the Urban League of Essex County, told The New Yorker.
According to the New Yorker, “despite millions of dollars spent on community engagement — [officials] have yet to hold tough, open conversations with the people of Newark about exactly how much money the district has, where it is going, and what students aren’t getting as a result."
http://newjersey.news12.com/news/report-100m-donation-to-newark-schools-largely-gone-1.8016780
The New Yorker - by Dale Russakoff
May 19, 2014:
...Almost four years later, Newark has fifty new principals, four new public high schools, a new teachers’ contract that ties pay to performance, and an agreement by most charter schools to serve their share of the neediest students. But residents only recently learned that the overhaul would require thousands of students to move to other schools, and a thousand teachers and more than eight hundred support staff to be laid off within three years. In mid-April, seventy-seven members of the clergy signed a letter to Christie requesting a moratorium on the plan, citing “venomous” public anger and “the moral imperative” that people have power over their own destiny. Booker, now a U.S. senator, said in a recent interview that he understood families’ fear and anger: “My mom—she would’ve been fit to be tied with some of what happened.” But he characterized the rancor as “a sort of nadir,” and predicted that in two or three years Newark could be a national model of urban education. “That’s pretty monumental in terms of the accomplishment that will be.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_russakoff