Montclair Charter Founders Move On; Maplewood Charter Founders Give Up

Quest founder says she needs feedback from the community

Although the media has reported that the founders of the Hua Mei Charter School in Maplewood have decided not to apply a third time to the state for approval, a founder of the Quest Academy Charter High School in Montclair said Thursday that she has not yet given up on the idea.

The founders of Hua Mei had proposed a K-5 Mandarin-immersion charter school that would draw mainly from the South Orange-Maplewood and West Orange school districts — although spots could have been available for students outside of those districts if space allowed. The school would have opened as a K-2 school in 2012 and expanded thereafter.

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