Monday, October 16, 2017

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie Questions Rule Allowing Charter Schools to Certify Teachers



By Kenneth Lovett

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is the latest lawmaker to question the legality of new rules approved last week by a State University of New York committee that allows some charter schools to certify its own teachers.

In 2016, the Legislature passed a bill giving SUNY more power to develop rules for the charter  schools it oversees.

But Heastie, in a statement to the Daily News on Sunday, said he didn’t intend the law to veer from current certification guidelines.

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report) 

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