CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: DOE is Letting Charters Undermine its Plan for Struggling Schools
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Is the de Blasio administration undercutting its own education vision by allowing charter co-locations in its Community Schools?
Rob Bennett for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio
The chancellor and mayor have a detailed and costly plan to help struggling schools. But some worry that other DOE policy moves are making that job harder.
Is the de Blasio administration undercutting its own education vision by allowing charter co-locations in its Community Schools?
The Community Schools Initiative could make real progress at addressing the complex social pressures that low-income students face. But if test scores determine the fate of those schools, a UFT activist argues, they are unlikely to succeed.