Zuckerberg gave New Jersey $100MM to fix Newark's schools, and it looks like it was a was a waste

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are you advocating robot people? :merchant:
that's...daring:whoo:

are you a robot?:ohhh::merchant:
No, just a constrained govt. resulting in a constrained potential to do harm. :manny:







How exactly is the corporatism being peddled by Democrats and Republicans worse for corporations though? you still haven't explained :leostare:
 

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This looks bad for Mayor Booker and that Krispy Kreme eating fat fukk Christie. How can you invest money into a system that's a failure in the first place? It makes no sense.
 

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A constrained govt. means less bureaucracy and in theory more money reaching its intended destination.

One could go even further and entertain the removal of govt's monopoly on education. :ehh:
How did bureaucracy keep this money from getting to its proper destination?

And monopolies only apply to for profit entities. Education is supposed to be a profitless endeavor that exists for the public good. If there was money in education Wall St and the private industry would have lobbied for their own monopoly on it.
 

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What's missing here is that 100 million dollars of unaccountable corporate money was spent inefficiently because the money was not democratically accountable to the people, therefore the administrators who were already corrupt put it in their pockets with near impunity.

Oversight is necessary when we're talking about structural reform. You have to be able to be sure that you're reaching your intended targets before you know whether you've failed or not.
 

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How did bureaucracy keep this money from getting to its proper destination?

And monopolies only apply to for profit entities. Education is supposed to be a profitless endeavor that exists for the public good. If there was money in education Wall St and the private industry would have lobbied for their own monopoly on it.
That isn't true at all, the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service is not exclusive to for profit entities...

But to answer you, the money passed through too many hands. Simple as that.
Each hand kept a little for itself, and by the time it reached the floor, you were looking at pennies. The larger the bureaucracy the more hands ... you get the idea.
he should have given the money directly to the schools themselves, where corruption would be easier to spot... but i'm sure the state has set up some barrier to such result orientated endeavors.

Would it solve the problem? no, but it would do a lot to improve the performance of our education system across the board.
 

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That isn't true at all, the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service is not exclusive to for profit entities...

But to answer you, the money passed through too many hands. Simple as that.
Each hand kept a little for itself, and by the time it reached the floor, you were looking at pennies. The larger the bureaucracy the more hands ... you get the idea.
he should have given the money directly to the schools themselves, where corruption would be easier to spot... but i'm sure the state has set up some barrier to such result orientated endeavors.

Would it solve the problem? no, but it would do a lot to improve the performance of our education system across the board.
Leave it to a right wing capitalist to mistake education to be a commodity/service. :beli:

And since you're so sure that there were barriers that kept Zuckerberg from giving money to the schools, rather than him just wasting his money, why don't you post a link to such barriers?
 

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Haven't read the full article yet but very familiar with the issue and all i can see is GOOD & am not in the least surprised and so shouldn't any one else be. I called this back when this money was first announced when we was still on SOHH.

Very little if any of this money got to the actual kids and used INSIDE the schools. One of the schools I worked at got I swear like a flat screen TV and some kids were taken on a field trip with the "facebook money" . I did hear rumors though of school admins taking all inclusive training down in Florida and Atlanta .

You could throw 500 million dollars at a school systems like Newark and it wont change a think because like all of us already know money is not the issue, money is not the reason these kids are not learning , money is not why these schools are for all intents and purpose a straight to prison pipeline. The issue is in these communities both in the lack of services and in the anti academic mindset going on inside of them, which is one of the few things i agree on with 100% with @theworldismine13

Real shame though they had a chance to forever change the landscape of the urban educational system with this money
 
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