This is not a small thing: Their children’s fate is on the line.
Superintendent Roger León is appealing the state’s decision to grant North Star Academy an expansion, which would help hundreds of desperate Newark families who’ve been stuck on its waiting list. Success is hard to find in urban public schools these days, especially given the pandemic, but some of the charter schools in Newark have achieved it, showing remarkable results.
Like his sabotage of the city’s common enrollment system, which was created to prevent charter schools from “creaming” the best, most motivated students and parents. León messed with the process, tightening the rules to make it harder to apply, which ended up driving the charter schools out of the common system. That’s bad for the district, too.
“The only thing we should all be doing is supporting what is working,” says Jasmine Morrison, a North Star parent. “And that is what you’re going to hear from most parents that you talk to.”
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