EAST BRUNSWICK - The Board of Education passed a resolution earlier this month asking the state Department of Education Commissioner Chris Cerf to reject the proposed plan of expansion for the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, according to Patch.

The BOE claims the expansion would force East Brunswick to pay for a school comprised mostly of students from outside the town. Hatikvah's proposed expansion includes moving from a K-5 with a 273 student maximum to a K-8 with an enrollment of 600 students.

The state Department of Education has alredy required the East Brunswick Public School District to budget a cumulative $6,243,940.00 from the 2010-2011 through 2013-2014 fiscal years to fund the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, according to the story.

"Four years of enrollment evidence makes it obvious that the proposed expansion of the charter school would serve no East Brunswick residents," the Board of Education told Patch in a prepared statement. "However, as the proposed single 'district of residence,' such an expansion, if approved would burden the East Brunswick Public Schools and taxpayers with an additional cost in excess of $1 million dollars annually, to provide services to what would be solely non-district residents."