CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Reported bribe attempt: NY candidate offered money to support charter schools

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Reported bribe attempt: NY candidate offered money to support charter schools

Reported bribe attempt: NY candidate offered money to support charter schools

by The Perimeter Primate

BEHAR CLAIMS BUNDLERS OFFERED $200K TO ASSEMBLY RACE TO SWITCH CHARTERS POSITION,Friday, June 18, 2010, City Hall News (NY)

Steve Behar, an attorney mounting an uphill race in Queens for the seat of retiring Assembly Member Ann-Margaret Carrozza, claims that two pro-charter school bundlers have enough faith in his candidacy to have offered to raise him up to $200,000 in exchange for him changing his position on charter schools to support their expansion…
…But in a letter written to the website Queens Teacher, Behar claimed that he was being courted to come out against the charters. [and here]
“In the last few weeks two separate ‘political fundraisers’ promised to raise between $100K and $200K for my campaign if I changed my position to favor charter schools,” Behar wrote. “Since I’m running against a well-funded inexperienced and unqualified candidate (Ed Braunstein) who works for the Albany leadership and is in the pocket of the lobbyists and the special interests, that

South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures & the Arts

by The Perimeter Primate

NEPOTISM, CONFLICT OF INTEREST FIND A HOME AT CHARTER SCHOOLS, April 22, 2010, NY Daily News

At some New York City charter schools, it's a family affair.
A Daily News investigation has found some charters hiring wives, husbands and children of school officials and board trustees as vendors, teachers aides and consultants…
Here's what The News' review found:…
SOUTH BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURES & THE ARTS

Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School

by The Perimeter Primate

NEPOTISM, CONFLICT OF INTEREST FIND A HOME AT CHARTER SCHOOLS, April 22, 2010, NY Daily News

At some New York City charter schools, it's a family affair.
A Daily News investigation has found some charters hiring wives, husbands and children of school officials and board trustees as vendors, teachers aides and consultants…
Here's what The News' review found:…
BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL
Brooklyn Excelsior hired the wife of a top official at the for-profit firm that was paid $7.6 million last year to manage the Bushwick-based school.
Irwin Kurz is director of school quality for all New York schools managed by National Heritage 

Magnolia Schools charter management organization

Academy at the Farm

Dove Science Academy - Tulsa

Triumphant Charter School

Noah Webster Academy

Theory Into Practice (TIP) Academy