On Tuesday, voters in Newark decisively elected Ras Baraka their next mayor. He's a city councilman and a high school principal who beat out a better funded opponent, Shavar Jeffries, after a bitter ...

The first phase of the $100 million Facebook-funded makeover of Newark's school system will reach far beyond classrooms and into living rooms. Over the next eight weeks, city residents will be ...

Newark, New Jersey, is about as distant from Tucson as a place can be, so writing about today’s mayoral election in Newark on a Tucson blog may seem a bit strange. But the race is one of the many ...

On Tuesday I wrote that the mayoral election in Newark, New Jersey, was a referendum on “education reform,” aka education privatization. The election results that night had “reform” candidate Shavar ...