BY GUY STERLING
Guy Sterling, a longtime resident of Newark and a member of the Newark Water Group, spent almost 30 years as reporter with The Star-Ledger when the paper was located in the Newark.
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NEWARK SCHOOL VOTE: Tricks, lies, and videotape
All you really need to know about the Newark school board election Tuesday can be found on some videotape clips.
The first was recorded at a cocktail reception at the North End Bar April 3, held to raise money for school board member-and candidate for reelection- Tave Padilla.
Newark votes: Can public schools survive charter growth?
Newark voters go to the polls April 16 but the real question they face in the school board election isn’t printed on the ballot. It’s a question that’s brutal, clear and stark-a question that, maybe, no one wants to face:
EXITING NEWARK: Strange happenings as state loses control of the schools. Part One.
Just days before the New Jersey state school board voted to end state control of the Newark schools in 2017, local administrators appointed by former Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a contract awarding nearly $200,000 to a consulting firm with ties to state officials who ran the district. It was just one of a number of commitments the system’s former state masters imposed on the struggling, financially strapped district.
Newark schools: An illusion of local control, an illusion of democracy, an illusion of reform
The Newark school board election is scheduled for tomorrow-but the results already are already in. Two winners: Ras Baraka, the city’s mayor. And the other winner-Christopher Cerf , the charter school champion, Chris Christie pal, and former city schools superintendent and state education commissioner whose snake oil consulting show continues to play-and pay-in Newark.
Newark’s Cerf expected to quit, may stay on as consultant-Gregory new schools chief
Newark’s state-appointed school superintendent Christopher Cerf, Gov. Chris Christie’s long-term enforcer of the plan to turn Newark into the “charter school capital of the state,” is expected to resign-perhaps as soon as today-and turn temporary control of New Jersey’s largest school district over to his hand-picked choice, Robert Gregory, a deputy superintendent.
David Hespe, former NJ ed chief, hired at Newark schools by Chris Cerf, former NJ ed chief
David Hespe, the former New Jersey education commissioner responsible for many of the worst excesses of state control of the Newark public school district, has a new source of employment-the Newark public school district.
FINALLY, REAL GOOD NEWS FOR NEWARK’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A RHODES SCHOLAR
Jordan Thomas made his way to his parents’ car parked outside Gate 4 of Yankee Stadium in The Bronx Saturday. In a stadium suite, the Rhodes Trust had just completed the final interviews of the students vying for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships. Jordan carried with him life-changing news-a good sort of life-changing news-that he could barely contain.
Newark schools: The only loyalty should be to children
Faculty members, staff, and others associated with Newark’s Wilson Avenue School were called to a meeting Friday and told it was “disloyal” for anyone to raise questions about safety at the Ironbound school, according to sources attending the meeting.
Newark schools chief to teacher union head: Don’t need you.
An email exchange between Christopher Cerf, the state-appointed Newark schools chief, and John Abeigon, the president of the Newark Teachers Union. Abeigon’s email is at the bottom-it was sent to city officials, local school board members, state school board members, the mayor’s office and others. Abeigon offers his congratulations on the return of local control and asks for a role in the transition.