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The media fight between the mayor and Eva Moskowitz has obscured real issues. Is there really room for charters to co-locate? Is there a place for them in de Blasio's school strategy?
The mayor says he’s trying to find space for charters. The charter pioneer says he isn’t. Beyond their conflicting claims is a complicated debate over whether public schools have room, and the role charters are supposed to play there.
The ruling was more of a technicality than a decision on any substantive issues, noted education activists, who believe they will ultimately prevail.
They want the city to add more schools to a federal program that provides free lunch to all students. But the DOE may have good reason to move slowly.
For any school strategy to work, kids have to show up. And one in three children in the South Bronx misses a month of school every year.
Parents know a school is coming to 75 Morton Street. What they don’t know is where its students will come from.
Some say public schools have failed the poor. Others believe poverty is an obstacle that education alone can’t tackle. A new research center seeks to shape NYC’s education policy to recognize the way poverty affects young brains.
Some saw too much cost. Others not enough charters. But the mayor’s education speech did arrange ambitious proposals within a clear agenda of fighting inequality, and some liked what they heard.
DOE is keeping the sessions closed while it appeals a judge’s order to open them up.
Some advocates say the de Blasio administration has at least made an effort to listen to their concerns.
Some applauded the governor for slowing down to reconsider the way Common Core has been implemented. But others worry that Cuomo’s response to a revolt by upstate middle-class parents will only sew confusion for teachers, students and their families.
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