Cory Booker: Stop Being Dogmatic About Public Charter Schools
By Cory A Booker for The New York Times, About 15 years ago, when I was living in Brick Towers, a high-rise, low-income housing community in Newark’s Central Ward, a neighbor stopped me and told me about how her child’s public school was failing its students, like many others in our area at the time….Read More
Newarkers support ‘controversial’ school reforms, and this poll proves it: education advocate
Posted OnOctober 15, 2019 byBy Kyle Rosenkrans for NJ.com, If all you read was national news, you’d think that the Newark school system was a mess. Not so. But rarely have those national observers asked a broad cross section of the people what they actually think. Instead, they tend to cherry pick interviews with a few local gadflys and…Read More
Analysis: New Newark Poll Shows Majority of City’s Voters Favor School Options and Charter Schools. Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Pay Attention
By Laura Waters for The 74, Anew poll sponsored by the New Jersey Children’s Foundation reveals that the majority of Newark voters support public charter schools. That’s not terribly surprising: The state’s largest district has one of the best charter sectors in the country. In 2018, for the first time, Newark charter students beat the state proficiency rate…Read More