Newark Board of Schooling textual content updates: Signal as much as keep knowledgeable

With Newark lecturers, college students, and households hoping for a easy faculty 12 months, Chalkbeat Newark goals to maintain them updated on main Board of Schooling selections, as efforts to handle educational restoration and psychological well being points take form.

To attain that purpose, we’re launching a textual content messaging service to assist maintain you knowledgeable on key selections the college board makes each month that contain hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in taxpayer cash and straight impression Newark’s 38,000 college students and their lecturers.

Simply days earlier than the college 12 months began, the nine-member board accredited spending $7 million on contracts with 20 faculty bus transportation suppliers. However within the first week of college, households reported lacking bus assignments and challenges getting their youngsters to highschool — in some instances, spending cash out of pocket on rideshare companies.

The board additionally voted on a corrective motion plan following an audit by the state’s Division of Schooling to handle points with offering companies for college students with disabilities.

And previous to the college 12 months beginning, the college board had additionally shared updates on new safety guards, a pupil identification system, and a distant surveillance system for the district’s Workplace of Security.

We hope this new texting service will make it simpler for Newark households to remain plugged in to the college board’s selections.

The Newark Board of Schooling usually meets at 6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday and Thursday of the month. For the reason that pandemic, the conferences have been held nearly and livestreamed on the district’s Fb web page. When the board meets in individual once more, conferences will doubtless be held at headquarters at 765 Broad Avenue in Newark or at varied faculty areas all through the district.

Discover this 12 months’s board assembly schedule right here.

Join our month-to-month texts under and tell us you probably have any questions on Newark faculties. We’re listening. We’ll maintain the texts restricted to the largest information to return out of a gathering, in addition to reminders forward of the conferences in case you need to tune in.

To enroll to obtain month-to-month textual content message updates on Newark faculty board conferences, textual content SCHOOL to 973-327-7774 or kind your cellphone quantity into the field under.

Catherine Carrera is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Newark, protecting town’s Okay-12 faculties with a deal with English language learners. Contact Catherine at ccarrera@chalkbeat.org.