The Cut - The Chaos Inside Diddy’s Charter School

Last summer, Sean “Diddy” Combs was celebrated at the Apollo Theater for his work in education. The rapper was presented with an award by students from Capital Preparatory Harlem, the charter school he co-founded in 2016, the same year Forbes named him the richest man in hip-hop. The school is advertised as a posh college-prep academy with high-end facilities and a board that has included a number of Black public figures, including a host of The View, one of Dapper Dan’s daughters, and a popular self-help author and TV personality. It’s part of a network of charter schools that has attracted high-profile donors like Andreessen Horowitz and the Koch Foundation, in addition to Combs, who pledged $1 million in 2018. At the Apollo, three graduates took to the stage, eager to meet the Harlem-born rapper, their school’s unofficial mascot. Their entire class was there, said one grad, and all of them had gotten into college. But Combs didn’t show up, blaming airplane troubles. He accepted his award in a video, which seems to have been taken from inside his private jet.

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