The Chancellor says no final decision has yet been made on the issue of providing student information to charters for marketing purposes
More on this fast-developing if infuriating story in the Daily News here.
This morning at Tweed, Chancellor Carranza spoke about his opposition to the long-standing DOE practice of allowing charter schools to use the DOE mailing lists. He said no final decision has yet been made to change this practice– contrary to what reporters had already been told about this as late as last night and parents this morning. He asked for parents to make their voices heard about whether they wanted this practice to continue or not.
This morning at Tweed, Chancellor Carranza spoke about his opposition to the long-standing DOE practice of allowing charter schools to use the DOE mailing lists. He said no final decision has yet been made to change this practice– contrary to what reporters had already been told about this as late as last night and parents this morning. He asked for parents to make their voices heard about whether they wanted this practice to continue or not.
For more on this issue, see our press release here, with quotes from parent leaders, which among other things points out that DOE is the ONLY school district in the country that provides this info to charters voluntarily, helping them recruit their students, take their space and their funding, which is now costing our schools more than $2.1 billion per year. See also Diane Ravitch's blog, which hypothesizes that the Mayor chickened out when the news leaked out prematurely and he got blowback from the wealthy and powerful charter lobby.
Grace Lovaglio streamed Carranza's remarks to CPAC on Facebook live. He addressed the student privacy and charter school recruitment issue for about ten minutes at 36.25 minutes in. A rough transcript of his remarks follows:
Carranza says that he has not gone to any parent meetings where he has not heard about the “predatory nature” of charters and all the mailings. He tells the story of one parent who told him that only one of her children not to get the mailings is the one who tested gifted and not the ones w/ IEPs. The Mayor has spoken that this is not okay. …now somehow this has become that the district is going to cut this off. I cannot speak to whether or not this is going to happen.
The charter organizations are going to the media saying that this is unfair….I want parents to have all the info they need to make an informed decision. I do not believe that it is CONTINUE READING: NYC Public School Parents: The Chancellor says no final decision has yet been made on the issue of providing student information to charters for marketing purposes
