Monday, June 30, 2025
Priscilla Chan opened a school for disadvantaged kids in 2016 with her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Primary School, in East Palo Alto, CA, offered free tuition, as well as free health care and counseling for students and parents, in an attempt to show that giving kids the right support could lessen gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students. In 2018, Chan, a pediatrician, said she was "in for the long haul." But in April 2025, less than a decade after the Primary School opened, Chan told staff it would shutter its two locations after the 2025-2026 school year.
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Just when you think some billionaire oligarchs are charitable, a heartbreaking story like this emerges. In their entire lifetimes, Mark and Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg will never be able to spend the mega-mountain of money they have. After the 2025 GOP/Trump tax cuts, the Zuckerbergs and other oligarchs will have even more wealth to buy yachts, space rides, organs, private islands, or luxury jets, while tens of millions of Americans lose their health care. Thousands of college graduates will be facing hardships this year as the Dept of Education begins going after delinquent loans, a problem the superrich or their offspring will never have.
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