About Those Charters That Are Taking Over Newark
Let's go back to today's usurpation of democracy in Newark. The state-appointed superintendent, Cami Anderson, overrode the elected yet powerless local advisory board to allow for the closing of several public schools and subsequent leasing of the properties to five charters. This all happened immediately after the state reaffirmed that they will retain control over Newark's schools; the justification was that the schools are not run well, even though it's the state itself that's controlling them.
Yes, they are that shameless at the NJDOE. But more on the Broadies that hatch these schemes later...
Let's look instead at who the lucky winners in the charter school property giveaway are:
Yes, they are that shameless at the NJDOE. But more on the Broadies that hatch these schemes later...
Let's look instead at who the lucky winners in the charter school property giveaway are:
Five charters, Paulo Freire, Newark Legacy, 100 Legacy Academy, Team Academy and North Star Academy, will lease facilities previously known as Burnet Street School, Madison School, West Side NAF Academy, Eighteenth Avenue School and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School starting next school year.The only lease agreement the board did not contest was that of Paulo Freire Charter School, whose chief is former Science Park High School teacher Tauheedah Baker-