Not exact matches
A joint effort by Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council,
school board members, the leaders of many
charter organizations, education - related
nonprofit groups, and several local and state representative to procure state aid for both district and
charter schools is another sign factionalism is waning.
For example, earlier this year Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council,
school board members, the leaders of many
charter organizations, education - related
nonprofit groups, the Newark City Council, and several local and state representatives all signed a letter asking Christie to provide additional state aid.
In 2005, Algiers
Charter was founded by a
nonprofit board comprised of Orleans Parish School Board members and neighborhood representat
board comprised of Orleans Parish
School Board members and neighborhood representat
Board members and neighborhood representatives.
This bill would thwart a core tenet of
charter school independence by requiring
school districts to select a majority of the
nonprofit board members of a
charter school.
The mayor's goal, embodied in part in a proposal by
Board of Education
member Yolie Flores Aguilar, would let
charter -
school organizations, the mayor's
nonprofit and other groups compete to run 50 new
schools scheduled to open over the next four years.