Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ this Paterson charter school used to boost its test scores

Paterson — Students at the College Achieve charter schools in Paterson get to go home 90 minutes early every Friday afternoon.

But their teachers must stick around for another two hours for weekly training sessions.

That focus on developing staff members’ teaching skills is one of the factors that College Achieve officials say helped their schools achieve a substantial increase in student test scores made public earlier this month.

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