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College Achieve Central Helped Me Be First in My Family to Go to College By: Dayana Caluna, senior, College Achieve Central World famous tennis star Rafael Nadal—my favorite tennis player—once said, “However great you are, you never win anything on your own.”
NEW JERSEY — "On June 1, the families of nearly 700 students learned that their school, University Heights Charter School (UCHS), a pre-K-8 public charter school in Newark, will close in two weeks. As a result of this unjustifiably late notification by the Acting Commissioner of Education, families are left in a lurch and are frantically scrambling to find an alternative school for their children for the summer and fall...
Earlier this month, oral arguments were heard in a historic lawsuit against the State of New Jersey aimed at addressing school segregation in the Garden State. The plaintiffs cited a…
Last month, New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy stated that he supports high-quality, top-performing schools regardless of whether they are charter, district, magnet, or private. This gave parents like me hope…
In his first term, the Democratic governor denied nearly two-thirds of requested expansions. Typical is New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat in his second term who gives lip service…
In the sunny lunchroom of Philip’s Academy Charter School in Newark, 8th-grader Alyana Bonilla talked about aging out of PACS this Spring after the state Department of Education denied its application…
When I grew up in Kearny, my parents chose to send me to Catholic elementary and middle school. My parents then gave me the option of where I could go…
Like all mothers, I was excited and nervous when my child was about to enter kindergarten. We all want our children to thrive, have fun, and do well at school.…
Hundreds of students will be displaced from schools that meet their needs and parents will have to scramble to find new schools for next fall.
In response to the recent expansion denials of top-performing public charter schools, including one of the best charter schools in the nation, parents, students and staff from New Jersey’s public…
