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Newark students boycott first day of school over controversial plan

Parents in the New Jersey city tweet their frustration over public school changes with #NPSBoycott4Freedom.

Students across the United States have spent recent days gearing up for the beginning of the school year. But in Newark, some parents kept their children out of the classroom on Thursday, the first day of school, in protest of the district’s controversial One Newark school reform programme. Parents in New Jersey’s largest city tweeted about their boycott with the hashtag #NPSBoycott4Freedom