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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Charters In NJ: One Disaster After Another

Jersey Jazzman: Charters In NJ: One Disaster After Another:


Charters In NJ: One Disaster After Another

Oh, dear:
A controversy over a proposed charter school in Cherry Hill may soon be settled - in New Jersey Superior Court.
The Regis Academy charter is scheduled to open in September, but its operator, the Solid Rock Worship Center, is $20,000 behind on the rent and missed a Jan. 3 deadline to buy the property from Holy Eucharist Parish for $2.9 million. The property encompasses the church and the proposed school.
This week, the parish asked the court's landlord-tenant law division to evict Solid Rock and grant a "Judgment for Possession" of the site in the 100 block of West Evesham Road.
"They haven't been able to come up with the money," Camden Diocese spokesman Peter Feuerherd said Friday. "This is about a real estate deal that didn't work. They didn't fulfill their commitment to come up with $2.9 million, and we're in the process of dealing with the situation."
Anyone who spends five minutes looking at this story will quickly come to the conclusion that Solid Rock needs 



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