Chris Cerf had two audiences yesterday when he came before the State Board of Education as Newark’s newly minted school superintendent.

One was obviously the board itself, which narrowly approved the former state education commissioner for the Newark job last month in the wake of a contentious debate over who could best lead the state’s most tumultuous school district.

But as he made his first extensive public comments as superintendent, Cerf also faced a larger audience, both in and outside Newark, which has been hopeful but wary about how much will change under the man who first appointed controversial former superintendent Cami Anderson.

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