IN RE RENEWAL APPLICATION OF TEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL IN RE RENEWAL APPLICATION OF ROBERT TREAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL IN RE RENEWAL APPLICATION OF NORTH STAR ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEWARK IN RE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT OF MARIA L. VARISCO ROGERS CHARTER SCHOOL IN RE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT OF UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL IN RE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT OF GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL IN RE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT OF NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION) (CONSOLIDATED) (A-3416-15T1/A-4384-15T1/A-4385-15T1/A-4386-15T1/A-4387-15T1/A-4388-15T1/A-4398-15T1)
The Education Law Center, a non-profit organization, was found to have standing to appeal the Commissioner of Education's final decisions approving increases in enrollment and the expansion of physical plants for seven Newark charter schools.The panel held that even in former Abbott districts, it is the district that bears the burden of demonstrating that charter school funding will prevent delivery of a thorough and efficient education. Furthermore, the panel decided the Commissioner's interpretation of the relevant regulation authorized the grant of approval for expansions that would require satellite campuses, in as yet undetermined locations.charter schools.
