Tuesday, May 10, 2011
McDermott says he might not have signed had he known he was supporting a charter school.
Millburn’s former mayor, Tom McDermott, signed a petition to support one of the Mandarin-immersion charter schools, but says he didn’t realize that that’s what he was supporting. “It was definitely a little bit of a misunderstanding,” said McDermott, who added that if he’d known it was a charter school, he “might think differently” about it. “At this point, knowing more about it, and knowing more about charter schools, I might reconsider that,” he said. McDermott’s name is listed on a petition within the application for the Hanyu International Academy. The Hanyu International Academy would be a two-way immersion Mandarin/English public school, according to its application. It identifies an empty office park off Route 10 as the school’s …
Monday, May 9, 2011
Princeton school officials among those talking about the cost of charter schools to school districts.
Updated, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday School leaders from four neighboring school districts gathered in Millburn on Monday night to learn more about charter schools – a divisive issue in New Jersey that now concerns even high-performing districts like Millburn, which is faced with two Mandarin-immersion charters seeking approval. “It’s a storm and it’s a big storm now,” said Lynne Strickland, executive director of the Garden State Coalition of Schools. “And it’s not a perfect storm.” Strickland was part of a panel brought together at Millburn High School to provide school boards from Millburn, Livingston, Union and South Orange-Maplewood with information to take back to their communities. Millburn will follow up this meeting an agenda item for …
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Two schools have applied to open Mandarin immersion programs for K-2 that could pull students and money away from the district.
The Millburn School District is closely watching two applications for charter schools that would offer Mandarin immersion for elementary school students, potentially luring students away from the district at a cost to taxpayers. Millburn Superintendent James Crisfield told the Board of Education and the audience at its meeting Monday night he is planning an information session May 9 with other districts that could be affected by the charter schools. “So we can all understand what happens if one or both of these charter schools is approved by Trenton,” he said, adding that he is inviting officials from districts that already have charter schools to hear about the lessons they learned. "The way charter schools are funded could have a …
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4:57 pm on Friday, May 13, 2011
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