Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Facebook)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave a $100 million grant to the public school system in 2010. Now, according to CBS News, officials are considering using some of that cash on buyouts to get rid of poorly performing teachers. 

Newark's public schools are currently dealing with a financial crisis and the city estimates the school system currently has 300 more teachers than it needs because the number of students has declined.

Superintendent Cami Anderson doesn't want to lay off teachers because tenure rules would require her to fire the least senior staff rather than the poorest performers. Mayor Cory Booker described the situation on Friday at a meeting of the Education Writers Association in Philadelphia.

"If we could fire the 300 or 400 lowest-performing teachers, she wouldn't have a financial crisis," Mr. Booker said of Ms. Anderson's situation. "But her crisis right now is based on the fact that she can't get rid of teachers that way."

As of this writing, neither Mr. Zuckerberg or Mr. Booker have responded to requests for comment on this story.

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Getty)

While others are focused on Facebook's co-founder's citizenship-based tax evasion, New York State's Working Families Party leaped into another loophole debate associated with the profits accumulated from the company going public.

"You're not gonna Like this. Facebook plans to Like tax loopholes this week -- in a big way," the organizations' executive director, Dan Cantor, said in an email blast sent to supporters, some of whom may have groaned with the "Like" rhetoric. "And it'll cost taxpayers billions."

Facebook's critics allege Mr. Zuckerberg plans to write-off the profit it receives from going public as a business expense, and thus avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars of revenue, which Mr. Cantor clearly feels to be an unacceptable outcome.

"Like Warren Buffett, billionaire Zuckerberg has told President Obama he agrees that the mega-rich should pay more in taxes," he continued. "So we're calling on Mark Zuckerberg to follow through and ask Congress and President Obama to close the Facebook loophole today so that Facebook -- and every big company that goes public -- pays its fair share."

The Working Families Party is asking its supporters to "poke" Mr. Zuckerberg through signing their petition and "tell him that his big corporate tax dodge won't win him any friends."