Newark fire director accused of racial discrimination, creating public safety risk, lawsuit says
NEWARK — A nearly 30-year member of the Newark Fire Department claims in a new lawsuit that he suffered racial discrimination as well as retaliation for reporting alleged misconduct by the city’s fire director. As part of that harassment, Ramon ...
1,000 Families Expected to Boycott Newark Schools
Organizers expect 1,000 Newark families to keep their children out of the city's public schools Thursday in a boycott over changes in the district, which has become a flashpoint in the debate over how to better educate inner-city children. Other parents ...
Newark's controversial education plan brings more debate
The Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University in Newark will host a forum on urban education in light of the Newark Public Schools open enrollment plan that has parents and families upset and raising questions about registration, transportation ...
On first day of school under One Newark plan, enrollment confusion continues
NEWARK - Aniyah Clarke woke up on Thursday morning, the first day of school for Newark public school students, thinking that she was going to start the sixth grade at Hawthorne Avenue School, across the street from her South Ward home. Until she wasn't.
