GlassRoots Graduates Prepared for STEM Careers
A glassblowing studio in Newark well known for teaching city youth how to turn molten glass into one-of-a kind artistic creations is getting scientific.
View ArticleRobert Treat Academy Class of 2015 Graduates with $5.5 Million in Scholarships
Robert Treat Academy Charter School’s Class of 2015 received more than $5.5 million in scholarship offers to attend some of the most prestige high schools in the nation.The scholarships were announced...
View ArticleRoss Danis to Step Down as President and CEO of the Newark Trust for Education
Ross Danis, the inaugural president and CEO of the Newark Trust for Education, announced that he is stepping down after five years at the helm of the non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring...
View ArticleHelping to Increase Girls’ Interest in STEM Careers, Verizon Brings Girls Who...
At just 9 years old, Justina Nixon-Saintil emigrated with her family from the island country of Dominica to the South Bronx. The youngest of five children, she and her siblings were frequent witnesses...
View ArticleRutgers Law Dean Takes New Students on Tour of Newark
Andrew Rothman has been around Rutgers University's Newark campus since the late 1980s. As the dean for student affairs of the law school he graduated from since the mid-1990s, he has a unique vantage...
View ArticleFive Newark Students Graduate from Girls Who Code
Five Newark high school students graduated from Girls Who Code, an intensive summer program that was offered for the first time this year in Newark at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
View ArticlePublic School Students in Newark Headed Back to School Thursday in the Wake...
Thursday was the first time school was in session in Newark since last year's tumultuous school year that was riddled with controversy.
View ArticleVeteran Journalist Dale Russakoff Discusses Her Book "The Prize" at Newark...
Stakeholders on all sides of the debate about the future of Newark's troubled public school system assembled at Newark Public Library's Centennial Hall last week to hear veteran journalist Dale...
View ArticleNewark Planning Board Approves Plans for Charter School
The Newark Planning Board on Monday approved plans for a public charter school in the city's Central Ward on vacant parking lot once used by employees of The Star-Ledger.
View ArticleDistrict and Charter School Students Come Together to Learn Coding
A Newark coding program has been bringing together children from a district school and a charter school every weekend this fall, with instructors from a local college, to teach Newark students...
View ArticleBrick City Lions Travels to Florida for POP Warner National Championship
The Brick City Lions Peewee and Jr. Midget level football teams will travel to Orlando, Florida to complete at the Pop Warner National Championship. Both teams earned invitations after qualifying...
View ArticleNewark Teacher Wins National Milken Educator Award
Allison Cuttler, an AP Computer Science teacher at Uncommon Schools’ North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, had no idea she was the reason the entire school had assembled in...
View ArticleGovernor Christie Calls Newark Teacher "Inspiring" in State of the State Address
Allison Cuttler, an AP Computer Science teacher at Uncommon Schools’ North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, attended the State of the State address Tuesday as a special guest of...
View ArticlePro-charter school groups urge Mayor Baraka to work with them
A group of charter school and education reform advocates on Thursday fired off a letter to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka requesting that he work with them to restore education funding to Newark to where it...
View ArticleRuiz introduces legislation to expand preschools in New Jersey
Since 1999, Newark along with New Jersey's former Abbott districts, have provided free preschool for three and four year olds.
View ArticleCongressman and Councilwoman Pay Visit to Newark Middle School
Newark Central Ward Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins and U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. visited North Star Academy Central Avenue campus Friday to talk to students about leadership.
View Article5 Questions for the Executive Director of PC2E
A new organization was formed about six months ago to provide public school parents with a voice in education. While Parents Coalition for Excellent Education, or PC2E, has a statewide focus, its...
View ArticleNewark Trust Launches Campaign Central for School Board Race
The Newark Trust for Education recently launched Campaign Central, a robust set of strategies, resources and activities to provide Newark voters with objective, nonpartisan, up-to-date information...
View ArticleCentral Ward Councilwoman Throws Support Behind Gaddy in School Board Election
Newark Central Ward Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins is throwing her support behind D. Kim Gaddy for the Newark Public Schools Advisory Board election on April 19.
View ArticleNewark High School Students Conduct Research at Local Universities
Just about every Friday during their senior year at North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, Willma Arias de la Rosa, Xaymara Rivera and Desiree Koontz got to skip school.
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