Why is the Legislature strangling the growth of public charter schools?
Charters cost taxpayers less than traditional public schools, and charter-friendly policies could attract hundreds of millions of dollars in Race to the Top funding from the Obama administration. And New York faces multibillion-dollar budget shortfalls in the years ahead. Yet state law now limits the total number of charters statewide to 200 — a cap we should reach by next month. The Legislature seems unwilling to lift the cap — let alone provide more funding for these innovative public schools. The city Department of Education and the state Board of Regents have both asked the Legislature to lift the cap. The state pays public charter schools in New York City a little more than $12,000 a pupil — versus more than $14,000 a student at regular public schools. With education funding nearly 30 percent of the state budget and that budget facing a $7 billion shortfall next year, the savings alone Dekessler:argue for justify finding a way to provide more charter-school seats for New York’s ch
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