A New Jersey judge has sharply chastised the state Department of Education for conducting a “sham” investigation into, and initially denying, a local school district’s application to operate a private a school for special-needs students.

In a ruling released on Nov. 17, Administrative Law Judge John Schuster III said an education department official failed to take even the minimum steps necessary to determine whether the information he was acting on was accurate.

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