BOE VP Opposes Proposed Charter School
IT-named school would pull students from multiple towns, including Hillsborough and Millstone.
At Monday night’s Hillsborough Board of Education meeting, new board vice president Judy Haas got right to work by making the board aware of the district’s receipt of an application from a proposed charter school to be located in Franklin Township, which would pull students from high schools in Hillsborough, Millstone, Franklin and Bridgewater-Raritan. If the proposed school—operating under the working name of The Information Technology Charter School—gets off the ground, Haas informed the board that its intention is to have pulled 280 students from the desired districts within four years of its initial opening. Haas stated that Hillsborough was chosen as one of the districts in question for its lack of information technology (IT) training…
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10:21 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2012
@Tom: Not confused in the least. Today it is an IT Charter but last year it was Trillium in Flemington (Earth oriented, whatever that meant) and Chinese in Franklin and next year it will be God knows what. So you like the IT charter (I kind of like the idea also). But we, as a town, have absolutely no control over who or what charter is next and we are required to pay for it. At least in the … more ›