What Newark Can Learn from Camden

Everyone's talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries fight for mayoral control of New Jersey's largest city.  David Brookswrites in Tuesday's New York Times that voters face a choice between Baraka's "transactional, machine-like style of politics" and Shavar Jeffries' identity as a "reformer, promising to end the favor trading in government and modernize the institution." The emblem of their battle is school choice. Brooks notes that "charter schools are the main flash point in this divide."