TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie's office announced a partnership between the Harlem Children's Zone and Paterson schools that will improve community involvement. “Under Geoffrey Canada’s leadership, the Harlem Children’s Zone has become a national model of what can be accomplished when we move beyond the status quo and institutional impediments that protect failure at the expense of children,” Christie...
Gov. Chris Christie in this January 2011 file photo.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie's office announced a partnership between the Harlem Children's Zone and Paterson schools that will improve community involvement.
“Under Geoffrey Canada’s leadership, the Harlem Children’s Zone has become a national model of what can be accomplished when we move beyond the status quo and institutional impediments that protect failure at the expense of children,” Christie said in a news release.
The model will help Paterson schools partner with community groups to improve education for children, according to the governor's office.
“Our efforts in Harlem have proved that a community that comes together and puts its young people first can create a radically different environment — one of progress and success — for children to be a part of,” said Geoffrey Canada, executive director of the HCZ in a news release. “Gov. Christie is taking great strides to reform educational models to make sure children are our very first priority. I’m proud to stand with the governor and community leaders to take another step in that direction and give the community of Paterson the educational foundation to succeed.”
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