(Dan Ivers/NJ Advance Media) NEWARK - New York-based Uncommon Schools is hoping to build a new charter school at the former home of the Star-Ledger newspaper. The proposed six-story North Star ...

North Star serves nearly 5,000 students at its Newark sites. Founded in 1997, it is one of New Jersey's top-performing charter-school networks. Part of the national Uncommon Schools organization ...

The Newark City Planning Board last night approved Uncommon Schools Newark and North Star Academy’s plan ... has plans (already approved by the New Jersey Department of Education in 2011 ...

This is the second of two columns about the educators who make Uncommon Schools, an uncommonly successful charter network in New Jersey ... at Uncommon’s North Star Academy middle school ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy talks to prekindergarten students at the Early Childhood Center in Palisades Park in September 2021. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Perspective by Jay Mathews Why has New Jersey Gov.