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. Unveiled in December, the proposal calls for the relocation and consolidation of one-quarter of the city’s schools and turns some neighborhood schools over to charter operators.
Carrying signs proclaiming “Tests Don’t Teach” and “Public Schools Are Our Schools,” the protesters braved the cold weather for more than 90 minutes while some 30 speakers — from parents and students to union representatives, elected officials and political candidates including Newark mayoral hopeful Ras Baraka — called for reforms ranging from more money for city schools to Anderson’s ouster.
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