process, but overall, the money to the consultants, was a huge proportion of money that didn t do wa what was needed to be done to get the money no the classroom where the children in newark are living in extreme poverty, and witness violence on regular basis, and live in dysfunction, and so many more resources that were required at the classroom level, and that is not the focus of it. and i think that mark zuckerburg, really wanted to give a bonus po the great teachers, and that is his idea, but that is not how it played out. what happened there? no, he really didn t, and he and sheryl sandberg who vetted the agreement for him didn t understand how hard it is is to change the way that teachers are paid and rewarded. unions. and the seniority system. he wanted to get rid of the seniority protections to help the most senior teachers in place in the layoffs and the
the newark mayor cory booker had this foundation with all of the money, but who got the sit on the foundation? well, the foundation was called the foundation for newark s future and you had to give $10 million and later reduced to $5 million to have a seat on the board, and there was not even, and no wealthy person or foundation in the city of newark that could write a $5 million check and get on the board, so the board members were hedge fund managers, and goldman sachs, and a representative from goldman sachs and a represe representative from ford foundation. okay. and one issue that you write about is about these $# 1,000/day consultants who have now consumed about 20 million of the $# 00 million in the fees. you know, for some of us thinking, wow, was this money well spent. what do you think? gl well, some of the consultants did some important work to help to sort out the tenure process, and the teacher e evaluation