Lafayette Street School Bringing Back Our Playground

Parents, Students & Staff at Lafayette Street School working to Recapture the original Playground for the Well Being of the Deserving Students.

We are trying to raise awareness on the need and right for school children to play and socialize during recess. A need that is even greater in urban areas, where many school children live in apartments with no access to a yard or walking distance to a park. We are trying to change, by improving the neglected conditions of the 1/2 acre playground that serves 1,140 school children and is immorally b

02/15/2023

Good bye 🌳Environment.
Hello Classroom 🔥Heat bed😭

11/23/2022

Class of 64.

Visualization of the City of Newark's Plans for Harriet Tubman Square

06/15/2022

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04/27/2022

I haven't posted in a very long time, but I just watched the debate for Eastward Councilman 2022 and I have to say: MY SON HAD THE BEST TEACHERS THE WORLD EVER CREATED, IN THE 8YRS OF HIS NPS EXPERIENCE.

10/31/2021

Help Close The Park Equity Divide Ensure equal park access for everyone

06/02/2020

Black Lives Matter

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05/02/2020

This momento post is long over due...💚TPL

04/04/2020

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08/23/2019

Not normal then or now. Our kids and their teachers deserve to feel safe always. Everywhere.

5/2/1952-Newark, NJ: School children and their teacher peer from beneath the table where they took refuge at Lafayette Street School when the sirens howled the alert in New Jersey's first state-wide air raid test.

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