If Regis Needs Students From 25 Districts To Open, Should It?
Remember back in February when Amir Khan was bragging at a Regis Academy Board of Trustees Meeting that he could take kids from Hoboken if he wanted to because the NJDOE had allowed him to expand his districts? A couple weeks later the NJDOE told the Courier Post that Regis was NOT given permission to expand their districts. For a minute there it looked like Regis would actually have to fill the majority of their seats with kids from the districts they were actually approved to serve. Imagine that!
Fast forward to June and it's crunch time. The NJDOE is doing their walk through of Regis' facility in the next couple of weeks, and all of the final paperwork is due to the NJDOE by June 30th. Acting Commissioner Cerf will decide if Regis gets it's final charter on July 15th.
At a Board of Trustees meeting tonight Regis claimed to have 267 students enrolled, and this is also the number Khan cites in an article in today's South Jersey Sun. On June 8th however Christian Barnes, Regis Lead Person/Principal/Founder, confirmed enrollment of just 187 students and provided a breakdown.
Guess how many districts those students were being pulled from? 25. That's right, 25. And how many of those students are from the original four sending districts? Only 78, or 42%. Here's the breakdown.
This brings me back to the old adage trotted out over and over and over again by
Fast forward to June and it's crunch time. The NJDOE is doing their walk through of Regis' facility in the next couple of weeks, and all of the final paperwork is due to the NJDOE by June 30th. Acting Commissioner Cerf will decide if Regis gets it's final charter on July 15th.
At a Board of Trustees meeting tonight Regis claimed to have 267 students enrolled, and this is also the number Khan cites in an article in today's South Jersey Sun. On June 8th however Christian Barnes, Regis Lead Person/Principal/Founder, confirmed enrollment of just 187 students and provided a breakdown.
Guess how many districts those students were being pulled from? 25. That's right, 25. And how many of those students are from the original four sending districts? Only 78, or 42%. Here's the breakdown.