High Court Upholds Christie Administration's Charter School Review Process

By John Mooney
NJ Spotlight

The Christie administration has faced its share of criticism — from both sides — for how it reviews charter schools, but for now, the process passes legal muster.

The state Supreme Court yesterday upheld that review process in the case of a proposal for a charter school in Montclair that the New Jersey Department of Education had rejected six times.

The founders of the proposed Quest Academy Charter School had appealed the third of those rejections, this one by former state Education Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks, as failing to meet a required “standard of review.”

But the court in a unanimous decision written by Justice Jaynee LaVecchia said Hendricks had met the required standard that the decision was not “arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable.”

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