The 1st sustainability-focused high school of New Jersey cultivating the next generation of environmental, science, technology, engineering & math leaders.The Barack Obama Green Charter High School is founded on the understanding that students have ownership and responsibility for their own educational processes and their future. Accordingly, our curriculum will be established using effective, research-based educational practices, hands-on, Problem Based Service Learning adventures and grade appropriate core academic materials with a particular focus on the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. Our educational program will be designed to meet the diverse needs of individual students, including "at risk" students, ELL and students with special needs. At The Barack Obama Green Charter High School, our goal is to enable all students to be lifelong learners, exemplary, responsible citizens, caretakers of the environment, and leaders in the global community. Our expectation is that all of our students can and will achieve at rigorous educational standards. We are committed to an educational program that promotes continuous improvement and individual development and provides an organizational structure that responds to the intellectual, social, environmental, and emotional needs of students at different stages of their development.