Inside the ‘astonishing’ salaries at N.J. school empire. Taxpayers foot the huge bill. - nj.com

Inside the ‘astonishing’ salaries at N.J. school empire. Taxpayers foot the huge bill.

College Achieve Public Schools’ Neptune campus, located at 3455 West Bangs Avenue Neptune, New Jersey. Tuesday, April, 16, 2024. Tuesday, April 16, 2024.  Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media

Last April, College Achieve Public Schools, known as CAPS, marked its 10-year anniversary with a ritzy celebration at The Chateau Grande in East Brunswick.

The gathering at the ornate French-American style banquet center, set among 15 pastoral acres, was to toast a burgeoning charter school network that over a decade had swelled to nine schools and nearly 3,200 students across Plainfield, Paterson, Asbury Park and Neptune.

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