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Charter school applicants hope to boost number of charter schools in N.J. cities

Published: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:18 PM Updated: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:18 PM

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Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerBernard Strickland, 10, and Jasmine Nazaire, 10, draw the bones of the hand during an art class at Discovery Charter School in Newark. Ten charter school operators have applied to open up a school in Newark.

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TRENTON — New Jersey's urban education sector could see a shakeup in the coming years, as more charter school operators continue to look to open schools in the state's cities.

Most of the 50 charter school applications received by the state Department of Education ask to open schools in urban areas, particularly Camden, Newark and Jersey City.

The list, released by the department today, shows Newark has attracted the most interest, with ten operators hoping to open charter schools there.

A small percentage of the applications also hope to open schools in suburban areas, including Montclair. The full list can be viewed here.

Currently, 73 charter schools serve 26,000 students in New Jersey, a group that accounts for 1.4 percent of the state's

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Scores of parents and advocacy groups from across New York state converged on the State Capital yesterday in a zero hour attempt to persuade the Board of Regents to vote “no” on the adoption of an amendment to NYSED regulation CR-100.2(ee) which would allow local school districts to waive the provision of academic intervention services (AIS) for certain students that do not currently meet grade standards in math or ELA.

Under rules adopted in 2000, students that score Level 1 or 2 on state exams are entitled to receive AIS. However, as a result of the recent test score recalibration, the amendment will allow districts the sole discretion to exempt students from these services if they would have

NYC Public School Parents: Community District Education Council 3 on the potential co-location of a new Success Charter Network School

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Firstly, elementary school overcrowding has become endemic to District 3 and there is no room for the co-location of Success Charter school without increasing this already dire situation. Overcrowding predominates in the Southern portion of the district and given the level of new development in Harlem, such overcrowding is moving uptown. Unfortunately, SCA and DOE projections have continually underestimated this enrollment growth - and overestimated existing capacity - leading to increased

Dora Taylor: So who will Take Over D.C. Schools now that Rhee is out?

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Robert Bobb's name was floated around a couple of weeks ago as a candidate for the soon to be vacant position of School Chancellor for the D.C. public school system. Mr. Bobb is currently the Emergency Financial Officer of the Detroit Public School System.

I could see this as a possibility, Robert Bobb becoming D.C.'s School Chancellor, not because he deserves it, but because Eli Broad owes him a favor.

Robert Bobb was the City Manager of Oakland, California until he completed the Broad Superintendent's training in 2005. That led soon after to Bobb becoming president of the school board in Washington, D.C. In 2007 Eli Broad

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