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Dleta Sweat

NJPCSA Celebrates National Teacher Appreciation Week Honoring Public School Teachers in New Jersey. Dleta Sweat, Advocate for Self Contained and Social Emotional Learning/ Character Development Educator, at Great Oaks Downtown

Women’s History Month: Great Oaks Legacy Charter School Leaders

Women’s History Month: Great Oaks Legacy Charter School Leaders In honor of Women’s History Month Great Oaks Legacy Charter School interviewed 5 of our Campus Directors with the intention of

1,000 Winter Coats Handed Out to Newark Residents at South Ward Promise Neighborhood Annual Event

About 1,000 coats were distributed to Newark residents in the South Ward this month as winter kicks into high gear and temperatures continue to drop. The coats were distributed by officials

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School Strives to Get More Youth Inoculated, Hosts COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics

Moments before Seyfunmi Onaiyekan, a fifth-grade student at Great Oaks Legacy Charter School, rolled up his sleeve to get his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, he admitted he

Where can children under 12 get a COVID vaccine in Newark? Here are 7 sites.

At least seven locations in Newark began offering the pediatric COVID vaccine this week for children as young as 5 and city schools worked to set up vaccination events, steps

Nearly 100% of Staff at This Newark Charter School Have Received a COVID-19 Vaccine

Nearly eight months after Great Oaks Legacy Charter School in Newark brokered efforts to get its educators and support staff vaccinated from COVID-19, the school administration on Friday announced that nearly all

An Educator’s View: How My Newark Charter School Uses the Power of Tutoring — and the Power of Relationships — to Achieve Academic Recovery for All

Over the last 18 months, the pandemic has exacerbated achievement gaps for students who were already falling behind before COVID-19 arrived. What happens now is critical for ensuring that schools don’t

Op-Ed: New educational strategies that will outlast the pandemic

Two educators outline ‘new approaches that may better meet the needs of students, families and teachers’ The return to classrooms in fall 2021 will once again be to a school

‘Left in the dark’: Newark schools won’t share COVID data with families and teachers

School had been in session less than a week when first graders at McKinley Elementary School were sent home. Someone in their classroom had tested positive for COVID. They were

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