Eva's Success Academy Plans Another Near-Mandatory Field Trip?
Eva Moskowitz realizes that NYC charter schools (which enroll only 6% of the City's students and attempt to press the truly public schools into oblivion) no longer hold a privileged position under the current mayor. She will head to Albany, probably with pocketbook in hand and bus loads of cute kids, to lobby for her special interests. (Truly public schools are also populated by cute kids, only they are to be found in classrooms, as dictated by law, rather than lobbying on demand!
They are to be found in schools squeezed out of rooms and resources by the privileged 6% Eva represents). Given the amount of money that charter operators have handed over to Governor Andrew Cuomo ($800,000 in recent times), the cute kids are probably more for show than anything else. Moskowitz is likely to receive a warm welcome and two ears from Governor Cuomo.
Sadly, MONEY TALKS--EVEN IF IT'S NONSENSE! BUT, ULTIMATELY, IN A DEMOCRACY, VOTES COUNT MORE THAN MONEY. Will these few with so much money be able to buy public policy and, if so, for how much longer? Below, is my deconstruction of a letter she sent to parents last October, all but requiring students