Dossier
Chalkbeat Newark
Coverage of Chalkbeat Newark in the Nexus archive.
- Newark’s charter schools are seeing fewer students. Where are they going?
Newark’s charter school enrollment grew by less than 1% this school year, the slowest rate since 2019, while traditional public schools lost over 700 students, particularly multilingual learners. Immigration enforcement concerns and shifting family choices may explain the enrollment shifts, with charter schools enrolling fewer than 10% of the city’s multilingual learners.