Newark voters choose candidates with political backing for school board
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Moving Newark Schools Forward
Newark voters on Tuesday chose candidates backed by powerful elected officials to fill four open seats on the city’s nine-member school board, according to preliminary results.
The winning candidates — two incumbents, a state senator’s aide who was filling a temporary board vacancy, and a newcomer — now face the monumental task of helping oversee the school system’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Part of that task involves managing the district’s $1.1 billion budget plus $84 million in expected coronavirus relief money and millions of additional dollars from the federal stimulus package.