Over 40 percent of Newark students could attend charter schools within five years. Here's how.

March 28, 2018

A decade ago, less than 10 percent of students in Newark schools attended charters. Today, about 33 percent do. In five years, that number could reach 44 percent. Chalkbeat talks with professor Julia Sass Rubin to find out how this may–or may not–happen.

Chalkbeat.org, March 27, 2018

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