/*Cami Anderson*/ most recently served as superintendent of Alternative High Schools and Programming for the /*New York City Board of Education*/.
She is a former executive director of Teach For America, which recruits teachers to work in urban schools.
Anderson has close ties to /*Newark Mayor Cory Booker*/. She was an adviser to Booker in his first campaign for mayor in 2002.
The governor's office said Wednesday that Anderson's selection followed a five-month search to identify reform-oriented candidates.
Anderson will head a troubled school district in which nearly half of students do not graduate from high school. The city's schools received a $100 million grant last fall from /*Facebook*/ founder /*Mark Zuckerberg*/.
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