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Zuckerberg, Wife Gift $120M To Calif. Schools
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| May 29, 2014 9:51 PM
Posted on 05/30/2014 6:24:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Zuckerberg and Chan, a pediatrician, discussed the donation in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press. It was Chans first significant step into the public spotlight and the couples premier interview together. The two met while studying at Harvard and married in their Palo Alto backyard on May 19, 2012 the day after Facebooks stock began publicly trading in a rocky initial public offering that now seems a distant memory. In 2010, they joined Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett to get the countrys richest people to donate most of their wealth.
Im really focused on connecting the world. Thats my main thing, and youre primarily focused on children, said Zuckerberg, turning to Chan. And were able to do some of this work together, which is neat
There are interesting overlaps.
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Education is incredibly expensive and this is a drop in the bucket. What we are trying to do is catalyze change by exploring and promoting the development of new interventions and new models,
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:24:07 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I find this very encouraging. You can make a massive fortune while being dumb as a rock.
To: BenLurkin
It’ll be spent in a couple of days. Next!
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:27:12 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: BenLurkin
California schools = Teachers union pensions
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:34:43 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: BenLurkin
Hey, Marky boy: how did the investment of $100MM in the Newark schools go for you? Last I heard, most of the money was unaccounted for.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:38:22 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Lurking)
To: BenLurkin
Yes, and in other more exacting words, the Zucks are pouring money into a rathole and hoping for eternal absolution from a fawning MSM.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:39:56 AM PDT
by
HMS Surprise
(Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
To: Clemenza
I guess the worlds highest functioning schools in Finland which has emphasis on old basics like slide rules and no new technology shortcuts is lost on this goofball.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:42:31 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: BenLurkin
Suckerberg has learning curve issues.
Yeah that previous gift to the Newark schools worked out well didn't it?
Clue for The Zuck: if you want to throw your filthy lucre "promoting the development of new interventions and new models" like a fool, be my guest, but old school (no pun intened) methods worked well before previous generation libtard thieves started meddling with education methodology with previous generations' "new interventions and new models".
Bottom line, your money disappears down a Black Hole and education remains an abysmal failure.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:44:12 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: BenLurkin
The money will do one thing: it will make the unions and various educrats of California richer. What it won’t do is improve the education of the kids for whom it is intended. If throwing money at a problem solved educational problems in the past, we would have known about it. Unless many California kids are either not going to school due to lack of space, or they don’t have any equipment, all this money will do nothing to help them.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:44:28 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:45:11 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: BenLurkin
A fool and his money were lucky to hook up in the first place.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:48:28 AM PDT
by
Orangedog
(An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
To: Clemenza
Hey, Marky boy: how did the investment of $100MM in the Newark schools go for you? Last I heard, most of the money was unaccounted for.
It worked out great for him if you understand why these donations are made.
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posted on
05/30/2014 6:54:34 AM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: BenLurkin
“Zuckerberg, Wife Gift $120M To Calif. Schools”
Suckerberg should instead have given his millions to the Associated Propaganda in order that they could educate their headline writers that “gift” is not a verb (except perhaps in uneducated, millennial newspeak). Perhaps the AP blockhead meant “Suckerberg, Wife Give $120M to Calif. Schools.”
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posted on
05/30/2014 7:34:02 AM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: BenLurkin
Why not start a charter school instead. The publick schools have failed.
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posted on
05/30/2014 7:37:00 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: SharpRightTurn
The language is deteriorating as fast as the culture.
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posted on
05/30/2014 7:37:27 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: driftless2
it will make the unions and various educrats of California richer. Mark ain't stupid.
Those are solid components of the Democrat election squad.
The party that lets oligarchs like him rule the world
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posted on
05/30/2014 7:42:04 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Clemenza
Hey, Marky boy: how did the investment of $100MM in the Newark schools go for you? Last I heard, most of the money was unaccounted for.The popular definition of insanity comes to mind here.
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posted on
05/30/2014 9:12:52 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe they’ll help CA schools teach students that “gift” is normally a noun, and that “give” and “donate” make much clearer headlines.
To: all the best
Must be some sort of tax dodge.
To: minnesota_bound
“Must be some sort of tax dodge.”
It isn’t; it is a direct contribution to the Democratic Party through their owners: the teachers’ unions. These funds are to avoid the layoffs that budget restraints would force upon teachers (thus ending their dues contibutions); Newark NJ laid off 160 cops (at the time of record murders in the city) but kept its teachers.
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posted on
05/30/2014 5:12:08 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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