The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the founders of Quest Academy, a proposed charter high school in Montclair, against the state Department of Education for its repeated failure to grant it a charter, reports NJ Spotlight.
Quest Academy Charter School has been denied a charter a record five times by the state on a variety of grounds, ranging from questions about the completeness of its application to mounting resistance from the local district and others.
In its petition to the state Supreme Court in June, Quest Academy challenged the process as a whole, opening up questions as to whether it was rigorous enough in following the law’s standards. The challenge argued that the charter application process is a quasi-judicial one that has strict requirements of evidence.
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