Cheers Greet Zuckerberg's $100 Million Gift to Newark Schools
News broke Wednesday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be donating $100 million to the Newark public schools this week. The Newark school system is famously hard-up, having been taken over by the state of New Jersey back in the '90s. Zuckerberg himself "attended public high school in Ardsley, N.Y., before transferring to the private Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H.," the Wall Street Journal notes.
Of course, many point out that the gift comes close to the release of The Social Network, a movie said to portray Zuckerberg as something of a back-stabber extraordinaire, which comes out October 1. As Sam Gustin of Daily Finance explains that the timing is bound to draw some skepticism:
Zuckerberg's donation is huge and generous, but due to the timing, the gift will inevitably