Noah Gotbaum on the SUNY charter committee's decision to table the hike in fees of Success Academy charter today
The SUNY committee decided to table the motion to double the fees of Eva Moskowitz's controversial charter network, probably because of a dynamitecolumn by Juan Gonzalez today. Here is the account of what happened by Noah Gotbaum, chair of the Overcrowding and Charter Committee of Community Education Council in District 3.
There was no discussion before the Committee decided to table the motion to double the management fees of Success Academy network. Ken O’Brien (SUNY Charter Committee Chair) just came in, called the meeting to order and then said that the Committee was “tabling” the fee portion of the merger resolution and that the rest would be discussed and voted on later in the meeting.
In addition to the Committee and Charter Schools Institute reps Ralph Rossi and Susan Baker-Miller, about 30 others in the room in the room included a half dozen from Success (Jenny Sedlis , legal counsel from Paul Weiss, usual parents), Lindsay Christ (NY1) and Ben Chapman (Daily News), and two dozen from our side, including Jim Devor and many from New York