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Charting Success: James Verrilli '83 Fashions A School For Inner-City Newark, Gerry Boyle
Charting Success: James Verrilli '83 Fashions A School For Inner-City Newark, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
James Verrilli '83 has heard it many times before. The suggestion is that students at North Star Academy in Newark N.J., do so well on assessment tests because they've been "creamed," skimmed from the top of the pool of thousands of kids in the city's conventional- and troubled- public schools. When the suggestion was made yet again during a recent interview, Verrilli tried not to bristle.