Oct 16, 2017 ... In September 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on The Oprah  Winfrey Show, along with then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov.  Chris Christie, to announce an eye-popping gift: $100 million to reform Newark  Public Schools. Local philanthropists and others would match that, ...
May 19, 2014 ... Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's  schools. They got an education. ... 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 ...
Oct 8, 2012 ... It's been two years since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million  gift to Newark, N.J.'s public schools. ... Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory  Booker, "so that Mayor Booker and Governor Christie can have the flexibility that  they need to implement new programs in Newark, and really ...
May 28, 2014 ... Every time Newark shows up on the national radar—from Cory Booker's celebrity  turn to Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million gift to Ras Baraka's victory in the ...  Although less than a third of its students score proficient in reading, Hawthorne's  growth puts it in the ninety-fourth percentile of comparable schools ...
Oct 18, 2017 ... Barely half of Newark public school students graduated. Nearly all were poor.  That was 2010. Seven years later, Gov. Chris Christie is a lame duck, Cory  Booker is a U.S. senator, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is more  gigantic. We also now have the first substantial study of results from the ...
Three years after getting the $100 million (from Mark Zuckerberg), less than two-thirds of students in Cory Booker's Newark graduate.