If two newly-approved charter schools open next year, they will bring the city's total to six and expand a budget line that began at $1.5 million in 2004-05 and is now $17.2 million.
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Gov. Chris Christie approved the two charter school applications Tuesday. Final state Department of Education approval will not come until July 2015 after a review of the applicants' readiness to open.
Details of the proposals were posted in a Courier News article online Wednesday. Cresthaven Academy Charter School anticipates a final K-3 enrollment of 300 students and College Achieve Central Charter School aims to have 1,013 students, though each will start out with fewer..
The city's four current charter schools are the only ones in Union County (scroll down).
Meanwhile, district school construction projects at Cook and Woodland schools appear to have been on hold since 2010. The School Development Authority web site says the projects are in "scope development" with the state Department of Education and the district. Woodland Elementary School is slated for renovations costing $95,200. Frederic W. Cook Elementary School has a project cost of $14.3 million and the SDA site lists a $1.5 fee awarded to Johnson Jones Architects in December 2004. Plaintalker posted a recap of the facilities issues in 2010. Time for an update?
--Bernice
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Wasn't Wilma Campbell just bragging that more students are coming back to the public schools system? What a politician. 10 years of her control is enough her and her slate need to go.
ReplyDeleteI know this is a little off subject but it's all connected. I was just reading David Rutherfords' blog post concerning Danny Dunn and I wanted to ask him this - Wasn't it just last year that Danny Dunn worked with you David and John Campbell Jr. on the school board and Assembly election? He's the same person today as he was then. John & Wilma hired him to work against Jerry Green and now he's been hired to work against them. Stop the nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI read the article in MCJ. The founders sound like they have a plan and I hope they do well, but if they really get 1300 more of the brightest out of the public system it will gut the public schools of whatever talent is left. So at the top you'll have the private school and magnet kids, maybe 5%, then the charter and catholic schoolers, another 30ish%, then everybody else. Sheesh, what's that going to do to the public schools? And why does Plainfield seem to be the state's laboratory? Is that a good reflection on the Plainfield community or a bad omen of things to come?
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ReplyDeleteIf you want a justification for supporting charter schools because of out-of-balance compensation for teachers and administrators in the public school system, think about Gloria Taylor being paid $120,000.00 per year, plus benefits, plus very generous pension, to provide supervision to co-workers.
To be fair, you would have to state the compensation and benefits of charter school administrators.
DeleteMy wish for the city is that instead of bringing in more charter schools, the people with all the big ideas on how to educate infiltrate the school board and work to improve the 10+ public schools we already have in place.
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