The Summer Food Service Program is a federally-funded, state-administered program that serves free healthy meals and snacks to children and teens in low-income areas.

The Mayor's Book Club aims to improve literacy and stop the summer learning slide.

Newark district schoolteachers got tips from charter school colleagues at a workshop on how to improve students' reading comprehension.

Newark's superintendent promises a new approach as the city begins its first year in charge of its schools in more than 20 years.

Roger Leon looks to use the district's past to inform its new direction.