Wednesday, June 13, 2012

SACS and the City (or Township)


See email below sent out to all parents registered at the Hebrew-immersion Shalom Academy Charter School.  The big mystery is over.  SACS is out of the closet and in the Grace Redemer Church near Ma'ayanot in Teaneck.  They are petitioning the Teaneck Board of Adjustment for a Certificate of Educational use. Good luck to them!  If they can actually pull this off & open next year I will have to admit being completely wrong.  Still it would be nice if they would discuss who the principal is, what the curriculum will be, etc. considering they are planning on opening in less than 3 months.

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To Our Parent Body,

Shalom Academy had its preparedness visit with the New Jersey State Department of Education on Friday. The school met all of the preparedness requirements (critical policies, SOPs, Purchase Orders etc.) except for one area: the facility certificates. The County and State have toured and approved the planned facility.

In order to proceed, the Teaneck Board of Adjustment needs to grant the facility a certificate of educational use. The school application is coming up shortly in front of the Board. There is opposition to the application and Shalom Academy needs your support.

PLEASE COME TO THE PROPOSED FACILITY at 125 GALWAY, 2ND FLOOR IN TEANECK, Wednesday, June 13 from 3-4 pm for a letter writing campaign in order to help us with gaining this use. This is a closed meeting for our parents only.

This is the only thing standing in our way for final charter approval.

Thank You,
Shalom Academy Charter School

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I wonder if the choice of a church was made in order to allay concerns that some people had (like state assemblyman Gordon Johnson) that this school was a front for a taxpayer-funded yeshiva.
What are the Vegas odds that it opens in September?
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It is so sad the bias that YD and others are showing to He'Atid, yet treat SACS and the yeshivot differently. The rabbis have offered no solution to this crisis. Many families are excited about SACS prospects and I know several who are registered at He'Atid, but that was to hedge SACS and will be at SACS, not this September, but 2013. Good luck to SACS.
NOAM completely flipped their new building and got it opened in one summer. It is doable.
BIG DAY for BC JEWS's avatar

BIG DAY for BC JEWS · 667 weeks ago

The State and County signing off on the facility is a HUGE issue. This blog should be going wild today.
According to today's suburbanite article, 92 children from Teaneck are REGISTERED to attend SACS in September. Wonder how many are from EXISTING yeshivot and how many are in TPS at this time. I wish those parents luck and I assume most will attend the June 21 special meeting of the BOA which will determine of the site is approved for use as a school.
I have 2 children registered at SACS but have no intention of sending the, They may have 92 kids registered but I'm curious to see how many actually show up IF the school opens

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