Mayor Baraka did something pretty amazing.
Mayor Baraka did something pretty amazing. The Mayor accepted a challenge from the Mayor of Camden. The challenge was this: Whose high school seniors are going to file the most FAFSA forms? It’s a very important challenge because the FAFSA form unlocks millions of dollars of funding for our students to go to a four-year…Read More
NJCF & Mayor Baraka Launch 2024 FAFSA Challenge: Newark vs Camden
[Newark and Camden, NJ – January 23, 2024] Newark Mayor Ras Baraka in partnership with the NJ Children’s Foundation (NJCF) and Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen with the Camden Education Fund (CEF) kicked off the 2024 “FAFSA Challenge,” a friendly competition between their two cities to empower local students and fuel higher education aspirations. The goal…Read More
If We Can Agree on This, We Can Agree on So Much More.
Posted OnDecember 12, 2023 byIt’s not every day that you get the teachers’ union and the charter schools to agree on something. But they did recently on a very important topic: how to get more teachers into classrooms. Both groups successfully urged Governor Murphy to sign legislation to kill New Jersey’s “basic skills test” for teachers. The problem was that…Read More