Dashawn Sheffield, a rising 11th-grader at Uncommon Schools’ North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, explains why he decided to launch a new
Newark is in line to potentially receive hundreds of millions of dollars between President Biden’s already-passed COVID-19 stimulus legislation and his pending infrastructure bill. That
Here are two press releases, one from Newark Public Schools celebrating that U.S. News & World Report ranked two of the district’s magnet schools about
New Jersey public charter school leaders released statements earlier this week on the first phase of President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, which includes initiatives
Before I talk about how happy I am that our kids will be going back to school, I want to start with a quote from
Today Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released an analysis of student academic performance in all Newark public schools, charter, magnet, and
Helen Mazarakis has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees at BRICK Education Network since 2019 and a member of the Board of Trustees
One of my mentors and political godfather was the great Carl Sharif. We lost the great Carl over five years ago. There are two Carl
On Friday New Jersey Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan notified four charter schools in Newark that she is denying their requests for expansion. This is the
I have a kid who’s in a school in an upper middle class neighborhood, and (it’s) mostly white kids. And we live only 10 miles