Monday, January 9, 2012

Application for Hebrew Charter School in New Jersey Raises Concern - NYTimes.com

Application for Hebrew Charter School in New Jersey Raises Concern - NYTimes.com:

Rejected 3 Times, School May Still Open Soon, and With a Grant, Too

In the last couple of years, Sharon Akman, a real estate agent, applied to the state of New Jersey three times to open a new charter school in the Highland Park area, to be called Tikun Olam Hebrew Language Charter High School.

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Each time, she was rejected.

Then on Oct. 6, one week after the state’s most recent rejection, theUnited States Education Departmentannounced that it had approved a $600,000 grant to finance Ms. Akman’s proposed charter.

It would have taken federal officials just a few phone calls to determine that there were many good reasons for the