Charters Continue to Stir Up Controversy -- in Senate, Court, and Home DistrictsIn the suburbs, experimental schools end up in court, as plaintiffs and defendants
In a rare election-season session, the Senate education committee has scheduled for today a hearing on a series of contentious bills that would place new limits and rules on charter schools in the state.
But it remains a guessing game at this point as to whether any of them will pass, even as more contentious moves continue to take place outside of Trenton, as local communities contest charter schools in their midst and charters fight back.
The state earlier this month announced the approval of just four new charter schools for next year, an unexpectedly low count that some attributed to the growing backlash to the expansion of the experimental schools in both urban and suburban communities.
But the new approvals did little to slow the concerns, as the approval of a new charter school in Cherry Hill –- the lone suburban charter of the four -- drew a quick rebuke from the Cherry Hill
