A portion of the money is being used to help finance the city’s new teacher contract. Booker played a key role in persuading the Internet billionaire to take the step, and he has helped spearhead the effort to raise the necessary matching funds from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His parents, Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM. Landed Zuckerberg’s $100 Million: Back in 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the Facebook social-networking site, announced the biggest donation ever to the Newark city schools. Booker was born on April 27, 1969, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey, 20 miles (32 km) north of Newark, New Jersey. Booker has also voiced support for taking teacher effectiveness into account in layoffs during tight fiscal times.Ĥ. Booker does not have control of schools and was largely limited to using the bully pulpit to champion the contract.
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Under the plan, low-performing teachers could lose their tenure if they get a series of low ratings. Newark adopted a contract last year that rewarded teachers, based on their performance, with bonuses of up to $12,500. One major area of disagreement: merit pay. The union chose not to endorse any primary candidate. 16 general election, but not in the Democratic primary. Booker got the endorsement of the New Jersey Education Association, a National Education Association affiliate, in the Oct. The push won backing from other well-known New Jersey Democrats but was ultimately unsuccessful.ģ. New Jersey Senator and former Presidential candidate, Cory Booker, is no longer dating his A-list action star and. He co-founded Excellent Education for Everyone, a nonprofit organization that sought to promote vouchers and charter schools in New Jersey. Washington's coolest couple has called it quits. Booker is among a handful of prominent Democrats nationally to support private school vouchers, and championed a proposed New Jersey law that would have created a voucher program in that state. Senate for that state, helped persuade Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, to donate $100 million to help the city’s public schools. The group eventually became Democrats for Education Reform, now the signature political action committee for left-of-center politicians who are fans of less-than-traditional Democratic policies, including charter schools and teacher performance pay.Īs mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker, left, newly elected to the U.S. Booker was a galvanizing force in the past decade bringing together a cadre of high-powered, deep-pocketed Wall Street donors with an interest in education policy, to support his early races for city council and mayor. Booker already has a national profile on education issues.ġ. Frank Lautenberg, also a Democrat, who died in June. New Jersey voters this month picked Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, to fill the U.S.
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