As backlash grows in the suburbs, the reaction in the cities is more complicated
By John Mooney, October 14 in Education
A Senate hearing yesterday on charter schools brought out many of the same familiar faces, led by a growing cadre of parents from suburban communities like Princeton, Highland Park, East Brunswick, and a new one to the list, Cherry Hill.
While more than half of all of New Jersey’s charter schools operate in its poorest cities, there was nobody from places like Paterson, Trenton, and Camden. They weren’t entirely without representation, to be sure, as various advocates stepped up to speak, but New Jersey’s fierce debate over charter schools has had a distinctly suburban feel of late.
That raises the question: where are the cities in what some have called the growing backlash against charters in New Jersey? What are the reactions there?
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