Story by Adam Clark; photo by Aristide Economopoulos / NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
It’s over.
Finally. Officially.
No more procedural steps. No more maybes.
New Jersey’s takeover of Newark Public Schools formally ended Wednesday, almost 25 years to the day that the state stripped local control from its largest school district.
“I am just glad I lived to see this day come,” said longtime state Sen. Ron Rice, D-Essex. “I never felt that we should be taking the districts over.”
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