Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s school is the latest billionaire education experiment to collapse

The Primary School, an educational facility started by Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, has shut its doors, becoming the latest in a series of failed attempts by billionaires and the ultra-wealthy to fix the education system. The school, which closed in June, opened in 2016 as a tuition-free private school designed to go beyond education by providing services such as free dental checkups and wellness coaching for parents. Roughly 540 children enrolled during its years o

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