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| A sudden Albany push to poison charter schools |
| 2023-04-20 |
| [NYPOST] Word out of Albany is that Gov. Kathy Hochul has yet to get the Legislature’s leaders to go along with allowing 100 or so more charter schools to open in New York City, but at best around a dozen. That’s a loss for the city’s kids — but far worse is another new wrinkle, a deadly threat to the city’s existing charters. Rumor has it that politicians are pushing to rescind or water down the state law that guarantees the Department of Education provide space for charter schools, or help cover rent if nothing’s available. This is utter poison. Charter schools are public schools, but run outside the local bureaucracy. Their students have as much right to public space as those in the regular system. And room shouldn’t be an issue in the city or most of the state, where standard-public-school enrollments have plummeted in recent years. Even pre-COVID, the DOE had more than 100,000 empty seats in its school buildings. The United Federation of Teachers and allied unions, which detest charters because they succeed where UFT-controlled schools fail, have spent more than a decade warring on charter "co-locations" — that is, a charter sharing a school building with a district school. In a series of fear-mongering campaigns, they’ve gotten rules imposed that set the bar far higher for a charter to share than for multiple district schools to do so. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The teacher's unions just realized that something on the lines of ChatGPT could replace 90% of their people. Couldn't be any worse. CONDITION RED! |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-04-20 16:56 |
| #2 We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. |
| Posted by: jpal 2023-04-20 15:54 |
| #1 Losing the school monopoly is an existential threat to socialism. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-20 12:21 |