Facts About Newark Charter Schools
It's just so old:
Their main criticisms of charters are that they skim the best students from the district and draw money away from district schools. But Newark's universal enrollment system puts a firm hand on the scale to ensure that charters take their fair share of harder-to-educate kids. And in Camden, charter leaders run neighborhood schools that guarantee enrollment to all area students. A kid's fate is not left to a lottery. [emphasis mine]That is the Star-Ledger Editorial Board, once again writing a love letter to charters. Once again, I am here to set them straight.
I just went over the clear differences between charter school and public, district school student populations in Camden. A few tweaks of the code, and here's pretty much the same data for Newark.
As a proportion of total population, the Newark Public Schools enroll many more students with the costliest special education disabilities. Again, we've been over this time and again: while some Newark charters have upped their enrollments of Jersey Jazzman: Facts About Newark Charter Schools:
