A husband-and-wife team that runs an embattled charter school in Asbury Park and Neptune has used a family-owned business to produce thousands of dollars of school apparel at taxpayer expense and in direct violation of New Jersey school ethics laws, an NJ Advance Media investigation has found.
After learning of the violation, four sources familiar with the inner workings of the school said the officials began using another shuttered store as an intermediary to obscure the work being done by the family-owned business. Those purchases amounted to $143,274 between December 2021 and January 2024, invoices obtained by NJ Advance Media show.
