Saturday, January 22, 2011

School turf war in between public schools and charter schools gets ugly

School turf war in between public schools and charter schools gets ugly

School turf war in between public schools and charter schools gets ugly

Saturday, January 22nd 2011, 4:00 AM

Eva Moskowitz (r.), CEO, Success Charter Network, is on the charter school side of the war.
Giancarli for News
Eva Moskowitz (r.), CEO, Success Charter Network, is on the charter school side of the war.

The latest salvo in Harlem's space wars between charter schools and public schools is a stencilled poster comparing a charter school to the Nazis.

A misspelled sign on the wall of Public School/Middle School 149 in Harlem reads, "Charter schools are like Hitler, tyrents trying to take what's not thiers!"

Photos of that poster and others critical of Harlem Success Academy, provided to the Daily News by charter school officials, were hung up in advance of a hearing on the schools' space-sharing arrangement this week.

"It's shameful that 631 children who have done nothing wrong...have to be



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2011/01/22/2011-01-22_school_turf_war_gets_ugly.html#ixzz1BmK9rYlL