Mother Crusader: Big Money Leads To Big Fight At East Brunswick Hebrew Charter

Mother Crusader: Big Money Leads To Big Fight At East Brunswick Hebrew Charter:

Big Money Leads To Big Fight At East Brunswick Hebrew Charter

by darciecima

It was almost a year ago that my fellow Highland Park residents and I were able to successfully derail the application for the Tikun Olam Hebrew Language Charter High School.  Diane Ravitch wrote a post today titledDo Affluent White Neighborhoods Need Charter Schools? in which she very matter-of-factly states:

There is a charter school for rich white kids in Los Altos (the Bullis School), the Metro Nashville school board has been trying to stop the Great Hearts Academy of Arizona from opening a charter in an affluent white neighborhood, Eva Moskowitz has opened charters in affluent NYC communities on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Cobble Hill in Brooklyn (maybe that’s why she changed the name of her chain from “Harlem Success Academy” to “Success Academy”). New Jersey parents in middle-class towns have thus far repelled them.(emphasis mine)

While in case after case New Jersey parents in thriving districts have had success pushing back against