This is a press release. For counterpoint, see here. After several weeks of public and stakeholder input, and in response to the youth mental health
Ras Baraka is Newark’s mayor. This first appeared at nj.com. The will to get it done. This was the unofficial slogan of my city’s lead-line
This past Friday, KIPP Newark’s North 13th Street Campus celebrated the grand opening of its new playground. The guests of honor were the school’s third-grade
We have more than one pandemic in Newark. As if COVID’s not enough, we have an escalating disease of car-jacking, car theft, and violence, particularly
Last Friday Asbury Park Superintendent Rashawn Adams announced the varsity football team, the Blue Bishops, would forfeit their first game against a Newark high school,
The New Jersey Children’s Foundation announced today that it would provide a $10,000 grant to KIPP Life Academy, ensuring its track and field team will
About 58% of the students we looked at in K-8 are about 1 to 3 years behind in reading. About 68% of students are 1
Approximately 400 community members came together to enjoy food, games and music Students received Nike athletic wear, as well as free backpacks filled with workbooks
In a no-holds-barred op-ed today, Newark history teacher Yvette Jordan explains why Newark district high school students have “have unconsciously initiated a general strike” due
Rob Jennings is a reporter at Advance Media, where this first appeared. 5:48 a.m. That’s when my alarm went off during my long-ago high school