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Charter Schools: Melting Pot or Crucible?
Photo: hawthornestreet.com Charter schools have become a crucible for New York’s gentrification battles. The latest episode in this war is described in an excellent neighborhood blog called Hawthorne...
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Charter Schools part 1: Opportunity or Obstacle?
If someone offered you venture capital to launch a new enterprise, avoid most bricks-and-mortar start-up costs (and get government grants to pay what’s left), compensate yourself well and hire young,...
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Charter Schools Chief Tells It (sort of) Like It Is
Michael Duffy photo: the Lo-Down In a revealing interview with NYC Department of Education charter schools head Michael Duffy, Ed Litvak of the Lower East Side news blog The Lo-Down questions Duffy...
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Charter Schools: The Power of Marketing
Wednesday’s New York Times ran a front-page story on some Harlem public schools that are responding to pressure from charters by aggressively marketing themselves. Such marketing typically includes...
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What Happens When a Charter School Arrives
Do charter schools raise educational standards? The schools’ proponents say that charters educate more effectively than traditional public schools, and even those that don’t, still create a competitive...
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When Schools Battle for Parents’ Hearts and Minds
P.S. 217 Odyssey photo courtesy Matthew Septimus Rick Hess, education guru at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that the whole point of giving parents a choice between charters and...
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311: A Political Tool
The News and the Post report that Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested to parishioners at Brooklyn’s Christian Cultural Center that they should use 311 to help them lobby to raise the state’s charter...
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NY Media Ignore Major Charter School Study
For reasons we can’t explain, a June 29, 2010 study that showed “on average, charter schools had no significant impacts on student achievement in math and reading” drew zero attention from New York...
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