Another “oops” in Newark school plan
The “One Newark” plan is a disaster for the city’s families. Now, even the district leadership all but admits it by again postponing crucial deadlines. Parents who were promised a “match” with a new school this week won’t be getting it until next month. Other parents won’t know until days before school opens. And to make things even worse, some Newark school principals yesterday received instructions that, if literally followed, would require them to turn away from their schools all children who had a right to be there. How can the city’s parents feel comfortable with educators who cannot even express themselves in understandable language?
It’s what happens when you place the fate of school children in the hands of bungling, overpaid amateurs who got their jobs because of connections with Teach or America and charter schools and who are now trying to impose a political agenda on the people of a city just to please a governor.
“One Newark” was not only unworkable in design but now the state regime running the schools is so incompetent it can’t figure out what to do about the transportation and special education problems it created. Once more, its implementation has been delayed, leaving Newark’s parents dazed and confused.
In emails, conference calls, and “backpack” letters home—many of which never found their way to the children—Christie-appointed superintendent Cami Anderson said she was postponing the promised registration of thousands of children in their Another “oops” in Newark school plan | Bob Braun's Ledger: