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Trenton will feature two of state’s five new charter schools
Mike Davis and Brendan McGrath | July 16, 2014The state Department of Education announced yesterday that two charter schools proposed for Trenton have survived the final round of an 18-month approval process and will begin teaching students this fall.They were among five new charters statewide to gain approval.
Trenton STEM-to-Civics Charter School, a high school that will begin with a class of 100 ninth-graders, plans to open a temporary location on Grand Street in Trenton in September; and The International Academy of Trenton, serving 354 students from Trenton and Ewing in grades kindergarten through 3, will also operate from a temporary location, on Bellevue Avenue.
Trenton STEM-to-Civics, which goes by the nickname STEMCivics, has undergone a series of “conditional checkpoints,” the most recent of which came with a site visit by DOE officials on June 30, founder Leigh Byron said.
“We’ve been doing everything that’s necessary to start a school — recruiting students, recruiting staff, preparing the building and developing the program, everything,” Byron said. “This school started as nothing but an idea and now has developed into STEMCivics.”
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