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Harlem School Closing Tragedy

Mike

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Thanks Libs. You're all pieces of crap............

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3323403910001/mayor-de-blasio-shuts-down-harlems-success-academy/?intcmp=obnetwork#sp=show-clips
 

Steve

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Success Academy charter school families have no place for children to go after de Blasio cut co-locations

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/charter-school-families-left-searching-article-1.1712379#ixzz2vmZHqWXd

As Hizzoner battles Gov. Cuomo over prekindergarten and charter schools, nearly 200 kids whose Harlem charter de Blasio booted don’t know where they’ll go to class in September.

The distraught families, their lives now thrown into turmoil, feel they have nowhere to turn.

“I wanted the best for my daughter,” said Rakim Smith, 40, a cable technician from Harlem whose daughter Dymond is a sixth-grader at Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School. “Now they’re trying to take it away.”


Last week, de Blasio dropped the ax on a trio of planned Success Academy charter schools run by fiery former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, his sworn political foe. The mayor said they wouldn’t be able to share space with public schools.

The charter school was set to move to a nearby public school building in July, but de Blasio revoked the offer.


Kalima Gilkes, with daughter Kayla, 10, says she’d get a second job rather than send Kayla to a struggling public school.

City officials say they don’t have another space for the school, which is one of the highest-performing in the state, and charter school officials say they were counting on the space from the city and have nowhere for the kids to go.

once again a far left liberal and the school union show who and what is really important..

payback and patronage
 

Steve

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have you ever noticed that the union supported never show up to defend these types of actions that hurt the children and outrage the communities?



I would say we have some great public schools.. but not all are good.. in fact some are so bad that kids are just warehoused..

and you here their complaints.. overcrowded ,.. not enough money..
ect..

yet all the conservatives measures actually help those complaints..


vouchers, charter schools ect takes some of the burden off the failing schools.

and in many cases take the kids public schools fail the most..



On average, however, EMOs appear to outperform the TPS local markets in a consistent fashion for students of color and for students with the specific education challenges associated with poverty, Special Education or being an English language learner. These findings suggest that EMOs both can and do provide positive education options for students.
Education Management Organizations (EMOs).
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/02/08/new-charter-school-report-success-or-failure-set-by-year-three/
 

Steve

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I am sure we have one or two teachers that will look at my assertion and

"claim that these charter schools steal the money and students robbing the district of talented students and funding..


and to look at every model would be difficult

so lets look at NYC.. the one I question..

first what really matters to the public school unions. MONEY

In New York State, school districts only contribute about 66% of each charter school students’ expenses, meaning that when a student leaves, the remaining 33% of his/her funding stays with the home school district. The charter school gets 66% of the money and 100% of the student!
http://www.csat-k12.org/Page/21

so really the public schools get a 33% funding increase for each student that leaves..

My math may be off. but for one percent of the students leaving, a district would see a .0033% funding increase,.. and the more that left.. the more money they get to teach the other children..

I would say that is a funding increase.. no matter how you slice it..



and then they claim that take only the best students.. actually they opposite is true.. they often take a failing student the parent is concerned about enough to move to one and try something different..


The law states that charter schools cannot discriminate, create admission requirements, utilize pre-admission screening procedures, or charge tuition. Charter schools are free to attend (no tuition), and either serve the same demographic characteristics that exist in their nearby public schools, or are selected by parents of students who are “not making it” in traditional schools.
http://www.csat-k12.org/Page/21



then they claim.. ya but they don't take the special needs kids,.. and those children cost the public school district much more to educate..



Like public schools, each charter school is required by law to provide special education services in accordance with each student’s plan developed by the Committee on Special Education of his/her home school district. Further, charter schools’ smaller class sizes and flexible “best practice” approach to curriculum development is better for students with special needs.
http://www.csat-k12.org/Page/21



then they say they can't be union or the pay is crap..
State law requires all charter schools of a certain size to give their teachers the option to unionize. It is up to the teachers. In many cases, like CSAT, the educators joined a union (in CSAT's case, NYSUT). In others, though, the teachers did not.
http://www.csat-k12.org/Page/21

Now maybe the pay is crap .. it wasn't addressed.. but how much does it cost to get a public school teacher in an inner city to actually care?
 
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