Failing schools in Newark may be shuttered, charter schools expanded and private money used to boost salaries and provide merit bonuses to teachers, Mayor Cory Booker said Tuesday.
The city can be a national laboratory for education reform thanks in part to an unprecedented $100 million pledge from the founder of Facebook, Booker said. The mayor provided broad outlines of the reform plan during a meeting with The Record's editorial board.
And he signaled a willingness to take on the city teachers union and what he called a "clogged" and bloated bureaucracy in the state's largest school district.
"If you're failing my children, get out of the way," Booker said.
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