Newark gave 16-and 17-year-olds the right to vote. They are still learning their power.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Judah Ancion, a 16-year-old junior at Essex County’s Donald M. Payne School of Technology, found out he could vote in Newark’s school board election from a teacher’s offhand comment last month — only a few weeks before the April 21 election. […]