Newark Public Schools to Get a $100 Million Donation - NYTimes.com
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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve Newark’s long-troubled public schools, and Gov. Chris Christie will cede some control of the state-run system to Mayor Cory A. Booker in conjunction with the huge gift, officials said Wednesday night.
The three men plan to announce the arrangement Friday on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
The changes would not formally relax the legal power the state seized in 1995, when it declared Newark’s schools a failure and took control of the system, replacing the elected school board with a mostly toothless advisory board. Rather, Mr. Christie plans to give the mayor a major role choosing a new superintendent and redesign the system but retain the right to yank it back.
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