The We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education , which is applying to New York State to establish the Jefferson Academy Charter School will also be applying to create an online charter school for home-schoolers around the state. Home schoolers can be connected by the Internet to a SUNY New Paltz linked but independently managed support group based at one of the former IBM Kingston vacant buildings. The school should be started with 249 students or fewer, otherwise teachers must start out unionized. Home-schooled kids count, it appears. Must have minimum of 50 students and 3 teachers.
Key person is the executive director.
He continued to work on the application, reviewing sites in Glens Falls and writing school policies. Finally, the charter school legislation passed, sites for a grade school and the upper-grade were selected, his application is complete, and the group sent him some more money. They have 24 board members across the state guiding the establishment of this new school. Mr. Schultz's main objection to the current system is that students in NY are being taught to depend on the government from cradle to grave, not the importance of the Bill of Rights and about the NY State and US Constitutions. The Third Millennium Education Project To contribute more info on Charter Schools to this page, please write to the Editors .