Millburn Mayor Sandy Haimoff is sending a letter to the Commissioner of Education on Wednesday, calling charter schools a detriment to thriving school systems like Millburn’s.
“It is my understanding that charter schools were established to help districts that have failing schools,” the letter states. “Millburn is not such a district and drawing from its student pool is the beginning of the erosion of public education.”
In Livingston, charters schools played a prominent role during the public comment portion of the town council’s meeting on Monday night.
Earlier, the five council members attended a special 5-on-5 meeting with the Board of Education on charter schools.
The debate continued at the township meeting when Anita Gordon, a Livingston resident and former educator, urged the council as a governing body, to make their voices heard and take an official position on charter schools.
"I think we need to let our state government know that this law must be rewritten and changed,”