ELC SUPPORTS COMPLAINT OF EXCESSIVE DISCIPLINE OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES BY NORTH STAR CHARTER SCHOOL

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August 21, 2018

A complaint filed by Rutgers Education and Health Law Clinic (Rutgers) with the NJ Department of Education (NJDOE) on August 17, 2018, alleges that the North Star Academy Charter School in Newark has engaged in a pattern and practice of imposing discipline without regard to students’ disability status

Superintendent Roger Leon meeting with Eatly Childhood Staff (chaired by NTU Vice President Donna Charles) the Newark Teachers Union as part of his fact finding mission.

Colleagues,

Over the last few contract negotiations, we have been pushing the district to giving more rights and protections to per diem staff.  Our per diems are typically Newark community members, and in many cases, they work close to the same schedule as full time staff.  But despite this, the district, especially while under state control, seemed reluctant to acknowledge the importance of these staff by providing them with higher salaries, benefits, or more protection.

In our last contract, we finally got NPS to agree to pay our per diem aides $15 an hour! 

When something can’t be done

On behalf of the NTU Executive Board and myself, we want to wish you all a restful, Blessed and safe summer, because we’re going to need you at your best when we get back.

I know that for many of you there are still plenty of responsibilities over the summer: taking care of parents, children, p/t jobs, etc. But we need you rested when you come back, so sleep as often as you can, nap, then sleep again. 

22 years of takeover and 7 years of relentless attacks from the Anderson/Cerf regimes have left us a school district in rubble. Basic systems/programs/models used in every school district in the