re: Zuckerberg Gave NJ $100 Million To Fix Newark's Schools -- It Was Wasted!

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Would you prefer the government hire its own full-time experts and pay them a government salary and benefits until they die? Because that would be the alternative option when the government lacks the expertise to do something itself.

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You are correct regarding the fact hiring a full time person would be more expensive. A lot of folks don't get that when they see wages for government contractors.

That said, regarding the OP. This is a classic example of the left's misguided belief that the fundamental problem with our education system is a matter of dollars. There really is no rational way to come to that conclusion when one looks at our per student expenditures from one place to the next and then compares them with results within similar places.

No one likes to admit it, but the reality is, if one constructed a color coded map for what are supposedly the "best school systems", it really just looks like a demographic map of the United States.

Throwing money at that wont change it.