28 October 2015 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan’s latest initiative to tackle educational inequity is The Primary School, a “private, non-profit school” which will eventually provide both free education and free healthcare for 700 low-income students from the Palo Alto area. “In addition to early childhood and K-12 education,” Zuckerberg explained in a Facebook post, “The Primary School will also provide prenatal support for families and on-site healthcare for children. By bringing healthcare and education together in one place, the goal is to support families and help children from underserved communities reach their full potential.”
A job listing for Assistant Teachers notes that “the school will admit students at or before birth.”
Zuckerberg joins other Silicon Valley luminaries like Elon Musk and Sal Khan in what Wired calls The Tech Elite’s Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image.