For Charter School Bills -- an Easy Time in Committee, a Harder Time in the Senate

Four bills that would revamp how charter schools are reviewed and approved in New Jersey won easy passage yesterday in a key Assembly committee, according to a report today from NJ Spotlight.

Yet the prospect of most of those bills ever becoming law – especially the one that would require local approval of all new charters -- is far from assured, as even their supporters admit.

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