Eva Moskowitz: bill lifting charter cap gives away “too much”
Harlem Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz took her fellow charter school supporters to task today for backing a bill that would force the schools to admit more special education students.
In an email sent to leaders of the city’s charter school movement, Moskowitz said that charter schools already serve the same percentage of special education students that district schools do. Her email came after the State Senate voted to more than double the state’s charter school cap on the condition that charter schools serve at least half the percentage of special education students that their nearby district schools do.
Though Department of Education officials and the charter school lobbying group, Education Reform Now,
In an email sent to leaders of the city’s charter school movement, Moskowitz said that charter schools already serve the same percentage of special education students that district schools do. Her email came after the State Senate voted to more than double the state’s charter school cap on the condition that charter schools serve at least half the percentage of special education students that their nearby district schools do.
Though Department of Education officials and the charter school lobbying group, Education Reform Now,
