STATE TESTS SHOW 4TH STRAIGHT YEAR OF IMPROVEMENT FOR NEWARK’S CITYWIDE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
STATE TESTS SHOW 4TH STRAIGHT YEAR OF IMPROVEMENT FOR NEWARK’S CITYWIDE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM Newark’s Charter Sector Beats NJ State Average for Second Consecutive Year NEWARK, NJ – According to a local foundation’s analysis, Newark public school students posted a fourth consecutive year of improved results on New Jersey state tests–with the city’s charter school…Read More
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