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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Ed Notes Online: NYDN: Charter school funding balloons during Mayor Bloomberg time in office - DUHHHH!

Ed Notes Online: NYDN: Charter school funding balloons during Mayor Bloomberg time in office - DUHHHH!:


NYDN: Charter school funding balloons during Mayor Bloomberg time in office - DUHHHH!
If they can knock off 10% of the teaching staff with another 10% to come over the next few years, the city can funnel money directly to the charter jails without passing GO. Here are some points made in today's Daily News "Exclusive" -- some exclusive, telling us Bloomberg has shortchanged public schools in favor of charters. Charter schools received billions of dollars during Mayor Bloomberg’s te
Martin Van Buren HS Community fight back against co-location
One of the more sinister methods the Department of Education uses to undermine comprehensive high schools is by opening up new schools within buildings that were not designed to hold multiple schools. This hurts the established school in a number of ways. The student population of the comprehensive school is reduced to accommodate the new school.  This in turn leads to a huge budget cut in the est