Despite the failure of their grand plan to turn Newark into “a symbol of educational excellence for the whole nation,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are again donating $120 million to help failing schools in the San Francisco area.

The funds will be allotted to schools throughout the next 5 years. The first $5 million will be provided for teacher training, parent outreach, and computers to schools in San Francisco, Ravenswood and Redwood City school districts. The couple will also contribute to assist leadership opportunities for students and training for administrators.

Their commitment will provide resources to educators that encourage innovation in classrooms and will support students in under-served communities.

The couple will also work to establish new district and charter schools to allow more high-quality choices for education, as well as listen to local educators and community leaders to understand the needs of students.

Zuckenberg made a $100 million donation to Newark, New Jersey schools 4 years ago. The Newark donation was criticized in a recent New Yorker article.

Between 2010 and 2012, The New Yorker reported that more than twenty million dollars of Zuckerberg’s donations were given to consulting firms with different specialties and many of the consultants were being paid upwards of one thousand dollars a day.

“Everybody’s getting paid, but Raheem still can’t read,” said Vivian Cox Fraser, the president of the Urban League of Essex County.

It seemed that the grand plan for Newark only remained on paper. Solutions hadn’t been figured out fully. Programs hadn’t been developed and important issues such as transportation had not been tackled. Things that were promised didn’t end up coming to fruition.

Zuckerberg told the AP Thursday that the Newark school’s progress can’t quite be measured so soon after the donation, but says the experience has influenced their decision-making process in San Francisco.