Study Finds NYC Charters Don't Serve the City's Poorest
New York City has long boasted of studies finding charter schools do a better job of educating low-income students than regular public schools. But a new study questions that data.Bruce Baker, an...
View ArticleAs Court Date Looms, City Revises Plans for Charter Schools
Ahead of a court date Tuesday, the city has been revising plans for charter schools it plans to move or expand inside buildings with regular schools.The NAACP and the teachers union have filed a...
View ArticleAs Court Date Looms, City Revises Plans for Charter Schools
Ahead of a court date Tuesday, the city has been revising plans for charter schools it plans to move or expand inside buildings with regular schools.The NAACP and the teachers union have filed a...
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Brooklyn Charter Dials Back Discipline After Outcry
Editor's Note: This is the third and final piece of our Charters & Choices series on charter schools and attrition rates, based on data obtained exclusively by SchoolBook. We made an interactive...
View ArticleChances of Admission to a Charter School Improving
As more charter schools open in New York City, the odds of getting into the privately managed public schools are rising while the demand for seats continues also to rise, according to the New York City...
View ArticleState Commish Says Charter Schools Limit May Be Flexible
New York State Education Commissioner John King said on Thursday that there might be another way for New York City to open more charter schools, now that it's approaching the legal limit.There are 197...
View ArticleMayor De Blasio's Charter School Dilemma
When Bill de Blasio was campaigning for mayor, he supported a one-year “moratorium” on locating multiple schools in the same building. He also said it was time for charter school network leader Eva...
View ArticleNYC Rejects 12 Charter School Bids for Public Space, Approves 12
The Department of Education is making way for two elementary schools run by the locally-based Icahn Charter network to add middle schools in the Bronx but it rejected 12 other requests for space made...
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