The New Segregation in the New Newark
This is a very important post; not because it's in response to me, but because it comes from a Newark parent - someone with his child's future on the line:
Jersey Jazzman: Newark Will NEVER Have Control Of Its Schools
Thoughtful and angry counterpoint on state-appointed superintendent Cami Anderson’soverriding the locally elected school board’s vote against leasing school buildings to charter schools.
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It’s true that there are a lot of mediocre and even ineffective charter schools in Newark. A search on GreatSchools.org, which evaluates schools on a one-to-ten scale based on standardized testing results, shows that there are, indeed, many charters that don’t do better than their public school counterparts. There are also public schools that are great—Ann Street school in the Ironbound has been a Blue-Ribbon winner in years past.
The challenge is to figure out how the effective models are scaled up across the
