^Cusido, Carmen. "Once-promising charter schools go off course - They're favored by reformers, but have a high rate of failure", The Times (Trenton), September 18, 2011. Accessed December 13, 2016. "Three years ago, Capital Preparatory Charter High School opened to much fanfare and was hailed as a formidable challenge to standard high schools -- a taxpayer-funded college preparatory program that might teach the regular public schools something about how to educate children.... After a period of probation, the school was finally pressured to give up its charter in May, and the New Jersey State Police opened an investigation into school spending practices."
^Barlas, Thomas. "Sacred Heart High School in Vineland graduates last senior class", The Press of Atlantic City, June 4, 2013. Accessed December 11, 2016. "Officials with the Diocese of Camden said the school would close at the end of this academic year because its enrollment was not big enough to justify continuing operations. Sacred Heart had only 168 students this academic year. Recruitment efforts resulted in only 23 youths to replace the 53 students who graduated Monday."
^Holl, John. "School's Backers Refuse To Accept Plan to Close", The New York Times, June 3, 2003. Accessed December 11, 2016. "In April, the Archdiocese of Newark announced that it would close the school, Bishop Francis Essex Catholic Regional High School, at the end of June because of the school's straitened finances."
^Freedman, Samuel G."Newark's School Choices Grow Bleaker", The New York Times, June 21, 2006. Accessed December 11, 2016. "Our Lady of Good Counsel High School was closing after 81 years, the latest victim of the vicious cycle of rising tuition, falling enrollment and mounting deficits that has afflicted urban Roman Catholic schools across the country."
^Gould, Brandon. "Before closing its doors, Bayonne's Holy Family Academy will sell all items and supplies", The Jersey Journal, August 16, 2013. Accessed December 11, 2016. "The all-girls school, which was originally opened as a co-ed school in 1925, lost its financial sponsor, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Pa., in 2008, but was able to keep its doors open through the efforts of its alumni until the end of the 2012-13 school year – at which time the burden became too much."
^Milo, Paul. "McCarrick High School in South Amboy closing in June, report says", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 19, 2015. Accessed December 11, 2016. "The Diocese of Metuchen announced that Cardinal McCarrick St. Mary's High School will close due to a cash shortfall, News 12 New Jersey reported Tuesday.... Parents interviewed by the station expressed surprise when they learned the school had been grappling with financial problems for 5 years and now faces a $1.8 million deficit."
