" New Barack Obama Green Charter High School is coming to Plainfield ,NJ "

[Cha]

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"Plainfield will soon be home to the city’s first charter high school after the zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance this week for the educators to set up classrooms at the Plainfield YMCA.

The 120-seat Barack Obama Green Charter High School is slated to open for ninth and tenth graders at the start of the new school year at 530 West Seventh St. It already has approval from the state Department of Education.

The school’s founders tout it as the first charter in New Jersey to implement the philosophy of the nonprofit Green Schools Initiative, which advocates a strategy including a toxin-free campus, sustainable use of resources and a ban on junk food.

The school plans to reinforce its philosophy of sustainability by encouraging students to walk or take public transit and to bring their own lunches. The school will not have a cafeteria or school buses."

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http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/04/new_charter_school_coming_to_p.html

Saw this in LBN thanks to Maverick(:fistbump:), but I thought it would be perfect for the BOG.

This is really interesting and could be the start of something hugely Green in our Future.:bounce:B-)

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank you.

:hi:

I'm always happy to read good news, green news, innovative schools news, and this one is all three!

:bounce:

[nyc 4 Biden]

2. I don't see how the opening of a charter school can...

...be good news. How about we fund our public schools instead?

[NYC_SKP]

3. Not all charters are bad and wrong, some even help the neighborhood public schools.

There's a whole lot of misinformation out there.

Thanks!

[Cha]

4. Thank you..exactly..all you have to do

is read about how this one was formed and it's kinda hard to find anything detrimental about it.