Mark
Zuckerberg Pledges 0 Million for
Needy Bay
Area Schools
Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have given their second major education-oriented donation with a
0 Million pledge for poor school districts in the San Francisco and San Jose areas.
The Zuckerbergs an**unced the gift in
a column they co-wrote in
The San Jose Mercury News, which was published Thursday evening
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"The world's most in**vative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools," it reads.
The gift follows on the heels of a
$100 million donation from
Zuckerberg in 2010 to Newark's struggling public
Schools through a foundation called
Startup: Education.
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