Plan calls for five privately run schools to open in city, operated with public funds
By John Mooney
The Lanning Square site in downtown Camden that is slated for the state’s first “renaissance school.”
New Jersey’s first “renaissance” schools have gotten a green light in Camden, opening up a new model of charter schools for the city.
But after much attention and controversy about the new Urban Hope Act that permits the approach, there have been few takers elsewhere. More than a year after the law was signed, the two other cities in the initiative have yet to even solicit proposals.
The contract for the new schools built and run by a partnership of the Cooper Foundation, the Norcross Foundation, and the KIPP charter school network was completed by the local board on Tuesday and approved by state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf the next day.
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