A pair of top state lawmakers and a state education advocacy group issued vigorous calls Monday for a statewide investigation into the College Achieve Public Schools (CAPS) network, following an investigation by NJ Advance Media last week that revealed top officials at College Achieve Asbury Park have used a family business to produce thousands of dollars of apparel for the school.
State Sen. Vin Gopal, D-Monmouth, who serves on the Senate Education Committee, described the investigation as “very disturbing.” And state Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, said “the state Department of Education, and any other applicable agency, needs to investigate College Achieve to the fullest extent.”
Meanwhile, the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association, the state’s leading advocacy group for publicly funded charter schools, said that, if true, the allegations in the NJ Advance Media report were “indefensible.”