New York Flex Charter High School
PEDAGOGY AND PROFITS: CHARTER SCHOOL BID RAISES QUESTIONS, September 21, 2010, City Limits Magazine (NYC, NY)
Upper East Side — A new charter high school proposed for Manhattan has close ties to a for-profit curriculum provider with family links to the chair of the state board that will decide on the school's application…
At the proposed New York Flex Charter High School, a company called K12 Classroom LLC will supply the curriculum to support that model, along with other services. The involvement of K12—whose chairman, Andrew H. Tisch, is the brother-in-law of New York State Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch—could be a test of the state's new charter-schools law, passed in late May, which forbids for-profit charter school management. At the very least, the proposal raises questions abo