When real estate developer Kevin Dixon decided to convert his South Jersey property into an alternative school for troubled students from Atlantic City, he started losing friends.
The plan also sparked a bitter disagreement among neighbors in the sprawling suburban Galloway Township communities and a racial discrimination lawsuit Dixon filed against the township that landed in federal court in Camden.
Dixon, a longtime resident and former township engineer, found himself at odds with Galloway officials after deciding in September 2020 to lease a building to Camelot Educational Resources, a Texas-based firm that planned to enroll about 90 students mostly Black and Latino from Atlantic City and Pleasantville under a $2.3 million contract with the Atlantic City school district to create Sea Shore Learning Academy.
