Parents Unified for Local School Education (PULSE)

12/05/2025

Introducing the Parent Organizer Project (POP)!
PULSE is proud to launch a powerful initiative dedicated to building and uplifting parent power across Newark.

Our mission is simple:
Support parents in becoming strong advocates and change-makers in their children’s schools and communities.

If you believe in community, equity, and the power of parents working together, you’re in the right place

http://pulse-nj.org

10/04/2025

PULSENJ Parent Organizers Project Cohort 1

03/20/2022

Today was our first annual membership retreat for the Parents Unified for Local School Education (PULSE). We invited back past members of the organization and bought them up to date with everything we’ve been working on.

Thankful for all the members and board members who came out today. Looking forward to our first general body meeting!

03/19/2022

Register here: https://bit.ly/pulselpfoodsecurity
March 25, 2022 | Hosted on Zoom | 6:00 PM
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Our next Listening Project will be focused on exploring the effects of systemic racism on food production & security with Bilal Walker of Al-Munir Consulting, LLC who also manages two urban farms in the city of Newark and Brenda Scott of Bessie Green Community, Inc who oversee their food distribution programs.

Information gathered here will be used to develop the Equity or Else Quality of Life agenda with the Journey for Justice Alliance.

36 grassroots organizations nationwide are taking part in this campaign and hosting on the ground listening tours to gather feedback to build this campaign which we will take to our elected officials in September!

03/16/2022

Register here: https://bit.ly/pulselpseniors....
Seniors! We want to hear your voices! Parents Unified for Local School Education is hosting a Quality of Life Listening Project this Friday, March 18th, 2022 at 6:00 PM. Information gathered here will be used to develop the Equity or Else Quality of Life agenda with the Journey for Justice Alliance.

36 grassroots organizations nationwide are taking part in this campaign and hosting on the ground listening tours to gather feedback to build this campaign which we will take to our elected officials in September!

Register here: https://bit.ly/pulselpseniors

02/24/2022

CHCA's Executive Director Khaatim Sherrer El is joing PULSE Director Sharon Smith to talk about the fight for economic justice in our community, calling out the disparities in homeownership as a contributing factor and place for us to start in building wealth in our community. Tune in tonight at 7PM.

Go to facebook.com/J4JAlliance to join the conversation!

02/24/2022

Tune in to J4JAlliance FB tomorrow!! National Town Hall on Equity in Economics !!! Great panel , great music, great fun !! Join us 6pm cst / 7pm est !!! One Pennsylvania Alliance for Quality Education of New York Kenwood Oakland Community Organization Schott Foundation for Public Education Step Up Louisiana Network for Public Education - NPE

01/13/2022

“In Trenton, a poor city without a supermarket, residents must go to Ewing or Hamilton, each at least two miles away, to buy groceries from a retailer that is not a bodega or a convenience store, said Joyce Campbell, executive director of Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, which serves meals to about 300 people a day.”

Fifty communities have been identified as lacking regular access to healthy food, according to a new draft report.

01/07/2022

Register here: https://bit.ly/pulselphealthcare
January 14, 2022 | 6:00 PM EST

PULSE, in partnership with the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (), is currently organizing listening tour projects in the city of Newark around quality of life issues. Our goal is to assess the impact of systemic racism on various basic quality of life institutions in our communities such as education, safety, housing, healthcare, climate/ environmental and economic development.

Next Friday, January 14, we will have Dr. Chris T. Pernell ( )speak to us about the impact of systemic racism on our healthcare system and policies. We will also be brainstorming solutions to address our systems in hopes of improving the quality of life issues in Newark and nationwide.

01/05/2022

Register here: https://bit.ly/pulselphealthcare
January 14, 2022 | 6:00 PM EST

PULSE, in partnership with the Journey 4 Justice Alliance, is currently organizing listening tour projects in the city of Newark around quality of life issues. Our goal is to assess the impact of systemic racism on various basic quality of life institutions in our communities such as education, safety, housing, healthcare, climate/ environmental and economic development.

Next Friday, January 14, we will have Dr. Chris T. Pernell speak to us about the impact of systemic racism on our healthcare system and policies. We will also be brainstorming solutions to address our systems in hopes of improving the quality of life issues in Newark and nationwide.