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SmallbusinessMark Zuckerberg once made a $100 million investment in a major US city to help fix its schools - now the mayor says the effort 'parachuted' in and failed
- In 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million toward creating an education foundation in Newark, New Jersey. The goal was to help the city's struggling school system.
- In an interview with Business Insider, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that the foundation did not use the money wisely.
- Baraka added that he wishes the foundation woul…
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