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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Perdido Street School: What's Eva Moskowitz Hiding From The Public?

Perdido Street School: What's Eva Moskowitz Hiding From The Public?:

What's Eva Moskowitz Hiding From The Public?



Someone in the comments of the Daily News story on the exponential increase of charter school funding under Bloomberg notes how Eva Moskowitz is suing the state to keep them from auditing what she's doing with the public money she receives.

She claims the state comptroller does not have the Constitutional authority to audit charters.

She's arguing that the Regents already have all the information that the state comptroller wants for the audit and the comptroller's audit duplicates what the Regents already do.

According to Courthouse News:

    Success Academy seeks declaratory judgment that the comptroller has no authority to audit charter schools, and a permanent injunction to bar such audits.

     In the alternative, it wants the Harlem 1 audit declared unconstitutional and stopped.

     It also seeks costs and attorneys' fees.

But the Regents are not an auditing body, the state comptroller's