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How Charter School Myths and Accountability Schemes are Unraveling in New York | Scathing Purple Musings

How Charter School Myths and Accountability Schemes are Unraveling in New York | Scathing Purple Musings:

How Charter School Myths and Accountability Schemes are Unraveling in New York

The New York Post is no friend of public schools and its teachers. But this story in yesterday’s paper is a double haymaker against today’s ed reformers.

She has appeared on “60 Minutes,” starred in the documentary “American Teacher” — and makes $125,000 at an unusual Washington Heights charter school.

But celebrity teacher Rhena Jasey, 32, scored a low 18 — on a scale of 0 to 100 — in the recently released Department of Education teacher ratings.

Jasey, a 32-year-old Harvard grad, works at The Equity Project, a publicly funded but privately run