School breaking ground on new home

The Bergen Record, 10/15/08 (c)

JOSEPH AX STAFF WRITER

TEANECK — The decade-old Teaneck Community Charter School plans to start construction today on its new home, capping a years-long effort to find a permanent facility. The new building, a former art supply warehouse on Chestnut Avenue, replaces the school's current home, a cramped second-story space at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls on Palisade Avenue. "It'll be a state-of-the-art facility that will allow us to do a lot of the things we can't do here," said Rex Shaw, the school's executive director. "Bricks and mortar don't make education. But a comfort level for students does make a difference."

The project will cost $9.5 million, and the opening is set for the 2009-10 school year. The school serves 287 students from kindergarten to eighth grade. At the current rented space, students in Grades 5 to 8 attend classes in trailers.

Diamond Grant, an eighth-grader, said younger students are "really excited" about moving to the new building.

The charter school is one of half a dozen in North Jersey and approximately 60 statewide. Its students are selected through a blind lottery, with the exception of siblings of current students, who automatically go to the top of the list. Charter schools have been permitted in New Jersey since 1995.

Pictures from the Groundbreaking Event

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Current lunch menus can be viewed from this point on under the Community Tab. Please note that paper copies of lunch menus are still required prior to the due date. 

You can now purchase Avon products online and 15% of what you spend will be returned to the school. To get set up, go to www.beautyfundraising.com, then click on “Register a Fundraiser Customer”, enter your name and the TCCS “fundraiser code”, which is 790014. Do your holiday shopping on the website and you’ll also be helping support the school!

Please have your friends and families register, too, as a portion of all sales comes back to the school no matter who places the order!  For more information, please contact Grisselle Henriquez, griss242000@yahoo.com

Click on "Curriculum" under "About TCCS" to find a listing of 2008-2009 Class Syllabi.