'Stand Up, Fight Back!': Newark Students Protest Charter Schools

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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-5

Published on Friday, April 4, 2014 by Common Dreams

'Stand Up, Fight Back!': Newark Students Protest Charter Schools
Hundreds of students walk out in march demanding public schools over charters

- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer

Following moves by the state of New Jersey to defund public schools in exchange for a flood of privately run charter schools, hundreds of students in Newark walked out of classes in protest on Thursday.

According to the Newark's Star Ledger, almost 1,000 students from about nine schools gathered in front of City Hall around 1 p.m. with microphones and signs.

The protest was organized by the Newark Students Union, calling the protest the “March of Shame," specifically targeting Superintendent Cami Anderson’s “One Newark” reorganization plan. The plan is set to close or downsize several public schools, fire a range of teachers, and move privately run charter schools into public buildings.

"Holding bullhorns and signs – some with the word 'liar' in bold letters above the silhouettes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and state-appointed Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson – hundreds of middle and high school students walked out of schools and into the streets of this economically struggling city," Al Jazeera America reports.

"Newark students, stand up fight back!" the students chanted throughout the rally.


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