Field Experience #2 Newark High School

In choosing a community meeting for my # 2 question of field experience, I went to a Newark public school board of education meeting. It took place at Newark Public High School. It had to do with No Child Left Behind and how every high school in the country is now required to provide military with access to secondary school student's names and addresses adn phone numbers. If the parents wanted to detest this, forms were filled out and were required to have the signature of the parents of the student. Secondly, they talked about the fact that Newark was getting state help and in return, the memebers want to have Newark schools reach an 80% mark in goverance to get off the state help. They used Jersey City and New Brunswick as examples. They feel that the control of the schools should be returned to district ablility. There was talk about the state haveing control for 12 years and think that the baord meabers need to do something about this. For the record, this is their ultimate goal.