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Here is video from the May 2 mayoral forum in Brooklyn, moderated by Diane Ravitch and sponsored by . Candidates included John Liu, Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio, and Sal Albanese.
Parent Voices
It was an encouraging evening. All said no more graded school report cards; all said in (a rather vague way) they would work for smaller classes.
Asked about whether they would expand charters and/or stop providing free space, Thompson said he would support a moratorium on co-locations and would focus on the million students on public schools; Albanese said that charter schools are a distraction and a way to attack organized labor. De Blasio used the issue to point out Quinn was not present, attacked Eva Moskowitz, and said he would start protecting existing schools rather than force co-locations on them. Liu said that the deck was stacked in favor of charters because of their school population of fewer at-risk
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| Bill Thompson, candidate for Mayor |
It was an encouraging evening. All said no more graded school report cards; all said in (a rather vague way) they would work for smaller classes.
Asked about whether they would expand charters and/or stop providing free space, Thompson said he would support a moratorium on co-locations and would focus on the million students on public schools; Albanese said that charter schools are a distraction and a way to attack organized labor. De Blasio used the issue to point out Quinn was not present, attacked Eva Moskowitz, and said he would start protecting existing schools rather than force co-locations on them. Liu said that the deck was stacked in favor of charters because of their school population of fewer at-risk