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Anderson to Remain at Helm of Newark Schools, Activists Vow Ouster

By David Cruz, Correspondent

Coming as it did — late on a Friday afternoon, on the final day of classes — the reappointment of Cami Anderson, the dominant education issue of the past three years in Newark, seemed anti-climactic. Reaction was, likewise, muted.

Still, at a demonstration outside City Hall, critics complained that the governor and his education commissioner had done an end run around them and snuck his superintendent in.…

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Educators Help Put Baraka Over The Top, Schools Pose Daunting Challenge

By John Mooney

New mayor’s consistent criticism of Superintendent Anderson and her ‘One Newark’ plan pays off at polling places

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But several observers said yesterday that they saw Baraka’s victory as providing a new voice in the city on these issues, even if just a symbolic one.

“It means we have a life,” said Michael Dixon, vice president of the Newark Teachers Union, a strong backer of Baraka’s.…

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Newark streets besieged by Baraka’s, Jeffries’ colorful armies of volunteers

By Mark Di Ionno
[…] At the Broad Street headquarters of the Newark Teachers Union, the first wave of street canvassers gathered just before 10 in the morning. Representatives of 34 unions operated out of the teacher’s building, working phones and laptops. Each were wearing their own Baraka colors: red for the health workers union, blue for the teachers, orange for the laborers, light green for the drywall workers, etc.…

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NTU President: Today’s Election Is a Victory for Newark’s Children

NEWARK, N.J.—Newark Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso’s statement on the election of Ras Baraka as Newark’s mayor.

“The election of Ras Baraka is a victory for our children. Mayor-elect Baraka, once a beloved high school principal, has always made our kids and their education a priority. He has spoken out against the One Newark plan—a plan that would mass close, mass fire and mass privatize.…

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NJ Leaders and AFT Call for Cami Anderson to Go

By Marc Bussanich

Newark, NJ—Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was joined by several New Jersey elected officials on Wednesday calling for Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson to resign as she implements a city-wide school reorganization plan that favors more charter schools. Watch Video of Presser

Weingarten visited the Hawthorne Avenue Elementary School, which is to be turned over to a charter school in September.…

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AFT Endorsements for Baraka

AFTNJ: “Vital public services like education and healthcare are under attack, so we need to elect leaders who are committed to preserving and improving the public good, not allowing for privatization of community assets for profit.”
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NTU: “Baraka has been a visionary leader and we support his plan to move Newark Public Schools and the city forward in a thoughtful and coordinated manner,”
President Joseph Del Grosso.…

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Rutgers AAUP-AFT Endorses Ras Baraka for Newark Mayor

The Executive Council of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the faculty union, has unanimously voted to endorse Ras Baraka as the next mayor of the City of Newark. The municipal endorsement was a first for the union, underscoring the importance of this election for both preK-12 and higher education members of the American Federation of Teachers. Public reinvestment in our community schools and our universities is critically important for economic growth and for student opportunity.…

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Donna M. Chiera and Ras Baraka on AFTNJ Endorsement of Baraka for Newark Mayor

EDISON, New Jersey – “As a fellow educator in an urban district for more than thirty years, I appreciate that Ras Baraka is making public education a primary focus of his campaign and I am proud to convey our endorsement. Vital public services like education and healthcare are under attack, so we need to elect leaders who are committed to preserving and improving the public good, not allowing for privatization of community assets for profit,” said American Federation of Teachers New Jersey (AFTNJ) President Donna M.…

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Newark parents, teachers, students take protest to Trenton

By Peggy McGlone/The Star-Ledger

TRENTON — Their focus may have broadened, but their anger remains laser sharp.

Hundreds of Newark parents, teachers, students and community activists rallied in Trenton on Thursday to demand the return of local control of the city’s schools and full funding for the state’s largest school district.

Many of the same people have marched in Newark several times in the past few months to protest Superintendent Cami Anderson’s “One Newark” school reorganization plan.…

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