The city teachers’ union filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to block charter schools from sharing public-school sites, while sympathetic Democratic state lawmakers introduced legislation to scrap fundi…
, who had pro-charter allies in the Republican-led state Senate on his side, began requiring the city to pay rent for charter schools to locate in private facilities if the city Department of Education denied them free space in the city’s public school buildings.
Jackson said in a memo the funds could be used to “upgrade and expand the capacity of our public schools.”to the posh, private $56,250-a-year Dwight School on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, has long resisted charter schools as an option for poor and working-class minority parents.“New York City is the only municipality in the state that has a requirement to reimburse private spaces leased by charter schools,” Jackson and Simon said in a bill memo.
“The cost to the DOE of rental payments for charter schools is increasing fast and will likely continue to do so, as enrollments expand and rents increase, funds which could be used instead to upgrade and expand the capacity of our public schools.”, the state Republican Party chairman who previously served on the State University of New York’s committee that licenses charter schools, slammed the moves by the UFT and the lawmakers as anti-parent and anti-student.
“There are 200,000 fewer students in the city school system than just a few years ago. There’s space available. Provide charter schools the space,” Cox said.A pro-charter school rally at City Hall in Manhattan on March 7, 2023.
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