A grassroots activist’s research (@darciecima), highlighted in a NYT expose, shows that the realtor behind Tikun Olam, a NJ charter school, made false claims and misrepresentations on the application to NJ education officials to approve the charter. This is a weak application by a person whose qualifications to run a school are questionable; the same application had been turned down numerous times previously. The school nevertheless received $600,000 in federal funding despite no community support, & refusal to support the school’s creation by local public officials despite claims otherwise on the application. Federal oversight of public taxpayer money is too lax! Secretary Arne Duncan, investigate the school before any money is spent! See http://bit.ly/wLTs28 &http://nyti.ms/ydjfa1 for details.
