New Jersey’s Charter Schools Are Under Review – And Parents Are Speaking Up
October 8, 2018From Chalkbeat Newark: “Newark reading teachers get help from an unlikely source: a charter school network”
March 14, 2019Yesterday I stood outside State Department of Education in Trenton and watched dozens of parents deliver 2,000 postcards, carefully stacked in boxes, each pleading with DOE Commissioner Lamont Repollet to end the charter school moratorium. One by one, on frigid Riverside Plaza, parents approached the microphone and voiced support for public school choice in New Jersey. “Parents are standing strong, and we have a clear message for our leaders: we love our public charter schools and our children deserve to be treated fairly, just like other public school students,” said parent Ashley Campbell from Paterson.
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