In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show alongside then-Mayor of Newark Cory Booker and then-Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. The three were there to announce a $100 million donation ‒ which would subsequently be matched by another $100 million from other grantors ‒ to Newark’s struggling public school system.

What followed was an ambitious and controversial public-private educational partnership that is still being studied and debated to this day.