breh you're just spamming the thread now
Zuckerberg gave New Jersey $100MM to fix Newark's schools, and it looks like it was a was a waste
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On September 4, 2013, Christie said he planned to reappoint Anderson when her term expired, at the end of the school year: “I don’t care about the community criticism. We run the school district in Newark, not them.” But Anderson was increasingly on her own. Christie was campaigning for reëlection and laying the groundwork for a Presidential campaign. Booker was running for the Senate in a special election to replace the late Frank Lautenberg. Six weeks later, he won, and left for Washington.
how am I spamming the thread if I'm making post on the originally posted content?
because you are doing it in multiple posts
In the fall, she held dozens of meetings explaining the rationale for One Newark to charter-school leaders, business executives, officials of local foundations, elected officials, clergy, and civic leaders. But participants said she didn’t present the specific solutions, because they weren’t yet available. Similarly, parents learned in the fall that their schools might be closed or renewed, but they would not get details until December. During the week before the Christmas vacation, Anderson sent her deputies to hastily scheduled school meetings to release the full plan to parents. She anticipated an uproar—“December-palooza,” she called it to her staff—which she hoped would diminish by January.
Instead, parents demanded answers and didn’t get them. Anderson said that students with learning disabilities would be accommodated at all district schools, but the programs hadn’t yet been developed. Families without cars asked how their children would get to better schools across town, since the plan didn’t provide transportation. Although Anderson initially announced that charters would take over a number of K-8 schools, it turned out that the charters agreed to serve only K-4; children in grades five through eight would have to go elsewhere.
The biggest concern was children’s safety, particularly in the South Ward, where murders had risen by seventy per cent in the past four years. The closest alternative to Hawthorne Avenue School, which was losing its fifth through eighth grades, was George Washington Carver, half a mile to the south. Jacqueline Edward and Denise Perry-Miller, who have children at Hawthorne, knew the dangers well. Gangs had tried to take over their homes, tearing out pipes, sinks, and boilers, and stealing their belongings, forcing both families temporarily into homeless shelters. Edward and Perry-Miller took me on a walk along the route to Carver. We crossed a busy thoroughfare over I-78, then turned onto Wolcott Terrace, a street with several boarded-up houses used by drug dealers.
Sheesh, what did this women do right? This is what happens when you're rushing to meet a political deadline.
It's like the folks putting the plans together don't have children of their own
Instead, parents demanded answers and didn’t get them. Anderson said that students with learning disabilities would be accommodated at all district schools, but the programs hadn’t yet been developed. Families without cars asked how their children would get to better schools across town, since the plan didn’t provide transportation. Although Anderson initially announced that charters would take over a number of K-8 schools, it turned out that the charters agreed to serve only K-4; children in grades five through eight would have to go elsewhere.
The biggest concern was children’s safety, particularly in the South Ward, where murders had risen by seventy per cent in the past four years. The closest alternative to Hawthorne Avenue School, which was losing its fifth through eighth grades, was George Washington Carver, half a mile to the south. Jacqueline Edward and Denise Perry-Miller, who have children at Hawthorne, knew the dangers well. Gangs had tried to take over their homes, tearing out pipes, sinks, and boilers, and stealing their belongings, forcing both families temporarily into homeless shelters. Edward and Perry-Miller took me on a walk along the route to Carver. We crossed a busy thoroughfare over I-78, then turned onto Wolcott Terrace, a street with several boarded-up houses used by drug dealers.
Sheesh, what did this women do right? This is what happens when you're rushing to meet a political deadline.
It's like the folks putting the plans together don't have children of their own
I'm sorry for contributing to the thread in a positive way by breaking out a multiple page article into readable sections with highlighted areas, thus opening up a discussion.
thank you for your contribution, just do it one post
the html tag for quoting is [ quote] and [ quote] (no space in the brackets), you can quote the parts you want to comment on in one post using that tag for each quote, and it will look much cleaner and more organized
no nikka…you're derailing the thread….notice how I'm STILL talking about the article, while you're talking BS
contribute or leave…you've made 2 post in this thread:
- one quoting somebody and talking about some shyt they said in another thread
- the second one talking about how ras baraka won tonight
have you even read the article? do you plan on contributing to the original content? if not leave me alone
Nigerianwonder
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No different than the billions raised for Haiti... Money never reached the people. They could have rebuilt that island 10 times over by now. It aint that big.
all you have contributed is rambling commentary
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
well i read it, so it doesnt sound like the 100 mil were a total waste, it just seems the real problem is the lady in charge (Anderson) and a failure to communicate, its not clear to me that the Newark One plan is bad, its just clear that it wasnt rolled out properly as far as community input
but at the end of the day, the public school system has to be destroyed and rebuilt, but you need a leader that can explain why it has to be destroyed and rebuilt
but at the end of the day, the public school system has to be destroyed and rebuilt, but you need a leader that can explain why it has to be destroyed and rebuilt