March 30, 2015
Camden school district employees will knock on the doors of more than 1,000 families to answer questions about their child's possible transition to a new school, the district said Thursday in a news release.
Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced Wednesday that five of the city’s lowest-performing public schools were shuttering, four of which would be reestablished under the management of charters.
“Camden’s kids can’t wait any longer for the opportunity to attend a safe, successful, neighborhood public school,” Rouhanifard said in a statement.
Families with children who attended the five schools will have a choice: continue in their current building, which will be under new leadership, or attend a different school at a different facility.
Rouhanifard said the city needed a dramatic change to overturn the culture of education in the worst schools – the district noted that two in five students don’t graduate high school.
