Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The Mayor Continues His War on Charter Schools

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio 


After four years waging a campaign against public charter schools, last June, Mayor de Blasio, as he sought renewal of mayoral control, promised collaboration and a new willingness to work with the sector, to treat charters as the public schools they are — publicly created, publicly regulated, publicly funded.

But it is now obvious that this was just rhetoric, and that instead, the mayor is waging a war of attrition.

Last week, the city falsely announced — without Success Academy’s input or community engagement — that it had resolved Success’ requests for space to accommodate hundreds of our rising middle schoolers. But this woefully inadequate proposal leaves hundreds of graduating elementary students educationally homeless and discriminates against the highest-achieving public charter students not just in the city and state, but in the nation.

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

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