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New Jersey’s only all-boys public school prompts praise, criticism

Last month [1] marked the grand opening of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Newark, the city’s first and only public, single-sex school, the Huffington Post reports. The academy is one of Newark’s newest public schools and is part of an effort to transform the district [2] by closing underperforming schools, replacing principals and opening new schools boasting innovative programs. The Star-Ledger reports that while the all-boys school is run by Newark’s school district, it is supported by the New York City-based Eagle Academy Foundation, which provides resources and community programs to three all-boys institutions in New York in addition to Newark’s Eagle Academy [3]. According to the state Department of Education, the foundation’s schools boasted a high school graduation rate of 87 percent in 2010, compared with Newark’s 61 percent in 2011…

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