Newark spends about $22,000 a year on each of its 40,000 pupils, but only about half of its students graduate. That's over $260,000 per student over 12 years!

Newark spends about $22,000 a year on each of its 40,000 pupils, but only about half of its students graduate. That's over $260,000 per student over 12 years! It's great that Zuckerberg is donating about $100 million to the worthy cause of education, but in this instance I find it hard to believe that lack of money is the problem.