Chan Zuckerberg's Tuition-Free Primary School to Close After 2025-26 Academic Year
- The Primary School, co-founded by Priscilla Chan and Meredith Liu, will close at the end of the 2025-2026 school year after ten years of operation.
- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will provide $50 million to support students and families during the transition following the closure.
- More than 400 enrolled students will transfer to the Ravenswood City School District, as reported in the school's announcement.
- Parents expressed surprise and sadness at the closure, with one parent stating, 'My heart breaks for my autistic son crying over his school.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Is Shutting Down a School for Low Income Families
Priscilla Chan's tuition-free educational institution for low-income families, The Primary School, is shutting down operations after nearly 10 years — a move that comes amid anti-diversity rollbacks at her husband Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. In a statement on its website, the Primary School didn't indicate why it was closing its East Bay and East Palo Alto locations at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year and said only that it was a "very difficul…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Shutting Down Two Bay Area Schools It Launched In 2016
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has decided to shut down two tuition-free private schools it started for low-income students in 2016, giving no explanation, though kicking down $50 million to help with the students’ transition to new schools.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started their big-bucks philanthropy the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation in 2015, right after the birth of their first son, and several months after the…
The Primary School, Zuckerberg-backed school for low-income students, to shut down
(KRON) -- The Primary School, which operates two tuition-free schools in the Bay Area and is financially backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, will be closing down at the end of the 2025-26 school year. The Primary School has schools serving students in East Palo Alto and in the East Bay. The school was founded in 2016 by the Meta founder's wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician. The schools were backed financially by the Chan Zuckerberg Ini…
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