Honored Newark Educator Loses Job While Less Decorated Teachers Keep Theirs

As the debate swirls over qualified teachers, one–rated as distinguished by the Newark school system–was forced to look for a new job this summer.25 year old Sauce Leon, a social studies teacher at the Newark Collegiate Academy–a charter high school. In just 3 years of teaching, Leon was rated a distinguished teacher here at the city’s public Arts High school, but when layoffs hit this summer–well as one of the last hired, he was first fired, even though at least two other social studies teachers here had subpar ratings.