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Global Visions One of 23 Charter Schools Approved on Tuesday

The school would serve students in kindergarten through the fourth grade in Galloway, Egg Harbor City and Mullica Township.

Global Visions, a proposed charter school that would provide service for students in kindergarten through fourth grade, was one of 23 charter schools approved by the state on Tuesday.

The school, which would serve Galloway, Egg Harbor City and Mullica Township, is targeted to open in September.

Former administrator Anthony Calandrillo proposed the 165-student school. Calandrillo submitted his application for the school to meet last October’s deadline, according to State Department of Education spokesperson Allison Kobus.

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Calandrillo couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The site proposed for the school is the St. Nicholas School site on Chicago Avenue in Egg Harbor City, according to minutes for the Egg Harbor City Planning Board meeting of July 20, 2010.

“Global Visions charter school will be centered on project-based learning and teaching to the multiple intelligences of students,” according to a press release issued by the governor’s office on Tuesday.

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There are currently 73 charter schools and a total of 23,491 students enrolled in them across the state. This would be the second charter school in Galloway Township, joining the Galloway Community Center School, established in 2000.

That school is for grades kindergarten through eight, and enrollment is 405 students with a maximum class size of 15, according to the school’s website. It pulls students from across Atlantic County, specifically Galloway.

GCCS’s goals are to provide individual learning plans for all students; balance alternative and traditional means of assessment; and promote differentiated learning.

Two charter schools have also been approved for Atlantic City, one for K-8 and one for high school.

“There’s a variety of things that are looked at when these schools are approved,” Kobus said. “It’s a process we go through twice a year.”

At 23, this is the largest number of charter schools that has been approved in a single cycle since the Charter School Program was established in 1995.

The next round of approvals is scheduled for March.


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