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Newark charter schools hit for serving too many Black students. That’s nuts. | Moran Today 6:45 AM The New Jersey Devils, Prudential Center and United Airlines teamed up to surprise Newarks Phillips Academy Charter School students with an outdoor hockey rink to help kick off the beginning of their school year on Monday, August 27, 2018. Andrew Miller ImagesAndrew Miller Images Facebook Share The ferocious segregation in New Jersey’s public schools is a legacy of home rule, the doctrine that allows white towns to build walls that keep out Black and brown kids. If you’re looking for stru...

Ohio legislators are trying to pass major reforms to the state’s school funding model, a model that the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional four times. If House Bill 1 – known as the Fair School Funding Plan – passes, many of the changes would have Ohio following in the footsteps of states already touted for their education funding models, including New Jersey and Wyoming. In 1981, David Sciarra and the Education Law Center, a legal defense fund, sued the state of New Jersey, arguing against dramatic inequities in how K-12 students were being educated. The class-action lawsui...

Credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP) April 28, 2021: President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. For all of New Jersey’s gains in building a nationally recognized preschool program over the past two decades, the reality is it is still serving only about a third of eligible children, if that. Now President Joe Biden has expanded the possibilities, in announcing in his address to Congress this week his American Families Plan, which would invest an additional $200 billion in federal funds to bring universal preschool to ev...

Credit: (David Handschuh/Chalkbeat) North Star Academy was one of the charters that expanded in Newark. Every few years, New Jersey’s courts have taken up the ever-controversial topic of charter schools, largely deferring to the executive branch as to how it meets its statutory and constitutional obligations in overseeing the privately run schools. This is one of those years, as the state Supreme Court was back on the topic again Monday, hearing oral arguments in a challenge over the unprecedented recent expansion of charter school enrollment in Newark. And in at least some of the questioni...

TRENTON, N.J. (CN) — The placement of over 6,000 students enrolled in Newark charter schools sparked concern within the New Jersey Supreme Court Monday during arguments opposing the expansion of charter schools. “I don’t know how you escape that what you’re ultimately seeking is an analysis that ends with a remedy that takes these children out of charter schools,” Justice Anne Patterson said during oral arguments Monday. In 2016 the state’s commissioner of education approved enrollment expansion for seven charter schools in Newark, as permitted by the New Jersey Charter School Pro...