Jersey Jazzman: More Chartery Awesomeness

Jersey Jazzman: More Chartery Awesomeness:

More Chartery Awesomeness

by Duke

Totally, charterly awesome:

CAMDEN — A city charter school, where a security liaison continues to work despite being charged with aggravated assault on a student, is facing a series of issues.
Among the problems at Distinctions in Urban Education Season Charter School are:
• Poor academic performance heading into the year before its charter is up for state renewal.
• A staff turnover rate approaching 50 percent a year — and separate police investigations into the security worker and a former employee.
• Pervasive nepotism — the school employs five members of the same family — that would be banned by proposed state legislation.
Most recently, the school is under scrutiny for the actions of Lawrence Carpenter, its security liaison and the son of Doris Carpenter, founder, chief executive officer and principal.
On April 17, Lawrence Carpenter grabbed 13-year-old Yontre Stanton around the neck with one