Local Say for Charters Continues to Dog Proposed Measures

With legislators next week slated to take up the issue of how New Jersey’s charter schools are approved and monitored, schools districts continue to press for a local vote on any new charter.

The delegates of the New Jersey School Boards Association voted overwhelmingly on Saturday in favor of a resolution that requires any new charter be first approved by local voters.

"It’s not that we’d like to stop charters or control them, but there was a feeling we would like to have more local say," said Frank Belluscio, spokesman for the association.

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