NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s largest city is regaining control of its public schools after 22 years of state oversight.
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Newark Regains Control of Its Schools After 22 Years
New Jersey’s largest city is regaining control of its public schools after 22 years of state oversight.
NJ gives control of Newark schools back to city after 22 years
NEWARK, N.J. — For the first time since 1995, Newark Public Schools will be governed from Newark. The state intervened decades ago after it deemed the city’s schools to be corrupt and failing. In the years since, Newark teachers, parents and students say they had no voice in how their schools should be governed, organized or run.
Newark regaining control of its public schools
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) —
New Jersey’s largest city is regaining control of its public schools after 22 years of state oversight.
After More Than 20 Years, Newark to Regain Control of Its Schools
NEWARK — In 1995, when Marques-Aquil Lewis was in elementary school, the State of New Jersey seized control of the public schools here after a judge warned that “nepotism, cronyism and the like” had precipitated “abysmal” student performances and “failure on a very large scale.”
Nonprofit helps Newark public schools’ music programs, donates music instruments
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