Newark Voters Gear Up for Last School Board Race Before State Is Set to Return District to Local Control

It’s an election decades in the making.

In 1995, the New Jersey Department of Education seized control of Newark Public Schools after the state’s high court determined it was necessary to rescue a system plagued by poor test scores, questionable spending, and crumbling facilities.

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