PORTA v. KLAGHOLZ

Civil Action No. 98-2350 (JBS).

19 F.Supp.2d 290 (1998)

Jerry PORTA, Plaintiff, v. Leo F. KLAGHOLZ, Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Education, the State of New Jersey, the Galloway Township School District, the Jersey City School District, Galloway Kindergarten Charter School Inc., Soaring Heights Charter School, and John Does # 3 to # 100, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 4, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Duffy, Absecon, NJ, for Plaintiff.

Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey by John K. Worthington, DAG, Richard P. Hughes Justice Complex, Trenton, NJ, for Defendants, Leo Klagholz and the State of New Jersey.

Charlotte Kitler, General Counsel for The Jersey City Public Schools, Jersey City, NJ, for Defendant, Jersey City School District.

Fredric L. Shenkman, Goldenberg, Mackler, Sayegh & Mintz, P.C., Atlantic City, NJ, for Defendant, Galloway Kindergarten Charter Schools, Inc.

Jeremiah T. Healy, Oswin E. Hadley, Healy & Hadley, Jersey City, NJ, for Defendant, Soaring Heights Charter School.


FINDINGS OF FACT and CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

SIMANDLE, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Charter schools in New Jersey are a recent innovation through which public money funds the availability of a public education to pupils attending specially chartered schools under the Charter School Program Act of 1995, codified at N.J.S.A. 18A:36A-1, et seq. This case presents a challenge to the operation of two charter...

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