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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Absurd NY Tabloid Propaganda War Against de Blasio's Reasonable Charter School Policies
http://www.alternet.org/education/absurd-ny-tabloid-propaganda-war-against-de-blasios-reasonable-charter-school-policiesLast week, the de Blasio administration declared war on charter schools, at least according to the New York Post. Governor Cuomo rushed to the barricades, telling a rally in Albany yesterday: We are here today to tell you that we stand with you. You are not alone. We will save charter schools. Families for Excellent Schools, who organized the rally, claimed the Mayor's decision was met with universal opposition and characterized the move as the back end of a quid pro quo with the teachers union for endorsing the mayor.
Wondering what actually happened? The de Blasio administration released a memo reviewing forty-nine co-location decisions made last fall by the lame-duck Bloomberg administration. A co-location is when two schools occupy the same building, and its been a controversial aspect of the charter-school movement. Many charters, which usually serve fewer special ed or bilingual students than regular public schools, get free rent on space in the regular public schools that charter advocates so often disdain--often space that the regular school needs..
De Blasios chancellor, Carmen Farina, set aside four of the decisions that wont take effect until the 201516 school year to give more time for study. It ordered thirty-five of the forty-five remaining plans implemented. It called for one to be revised. And it cancelled nine planned co-locations. Six concerned regular public schools, which also often co-locate. Three were for charters.
All three of those cancelled co-locations were for charters proposed by Eva Moskowitzs Success Academy network. Her defenders see that as proof that the mayor, a long-time critic of Moskowitz, was singling her out. But given the aggressive expansion plans of the Success network, its not that surprising that she has a large presence on the list. Moskowitz will now need to find space for those students, including some already attending Success Academys Harlem 4, which had outgrown the two other co-located sites it was using. Given that Success Academy is rolling in moneyMoskowitz reportedly pulls down $475,000, more than the president of the United Statesit seems likely shell come up with something. Contrary to the shorthand way some have reported it, de Blasio didnt rescind the schools chartershe couldnthe just said they cant use public school space.
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The Absurd NY Tabloid Propaganda War Against de Blasio's Reasonable Charter School Policies (Original Post)
xchrom
Mar 2014
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Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)1. Thank you. n/t
murray hill farm
(3,650 posts)2. Thanks!
Glad you shared that here!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)3. ...
rurallib
(62,426 posts)5. I am way outside New York, but I have wondered about the Moskowitz
story. Seems to me that the Success Academy often sounds too good to be true.
We don't have charter schools to a great degree in Iowa but I fear we will be in the target soon enough.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)6. De Blasio did the right thing--but he underestimated Moskowitz's willingness to cry victim to the
media.