Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview Friday morning said he wants a statewide law that would block a city’s mayor from revoking a charter school.
Cuomo’s comments were aimed statewide, but in the context of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to rescind the co-locations of three charter schools in the city that had been previously approved by the Bloomberg administration.
“I don’t want to see a system statewide where charter schools can be aborted by any mayor,” Cuomo said on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show.
He added, “I don’t think we should leave it up to the mayors where charter schools can continue and grow.”
Silver says he won't be a party to undercutting de Blasio's decision on the charter co-locations, but you know how these things go - everything is subject to "negotiation."
So, it's not Mayoral control, after all; it's Overclass control, in favor of the education privateers.
ReplyDeleteThat's it exactly!
DeleteHe has to go.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice, but I don't see it happening. I do think he won't go any higher than here, however. The Daily Kossacks hate him. It's difficult seeing him win a Dem primary and getting elected president. I want to see him try, though. The scrutiny he'll get will do him (and us) some good.
DeleteHe is sick.. so what he basically wants is gubernatorial control.... can someone say fascist and oligarchical?
ReplyDeleteI would say yes, fascist and oligarchical. Also a sociopath. He literally has no friends - just people who do what he wants, and enemies.
DeleteReported in todays daily news a state judge ruled that comptroller DiNapoli does not have the authority to audit the charter schools as he claims the charter schools "Are not units of the state". A bizarre interpretation as if they are not units of the state then why are they afforded state funding when relocated within public school buildings? The article goes on to state that other states allow auditing of charters (California for example. Will this ruing have a positive or negative effect upon DiBlasio's agenda I wonder????
ReplyDeleteThey're public schools when it's convenient, private schools when it's not. That's the reality. But today's court ruling does give some pushback the next time these charter advocates say charters are public schools. Actually, a court says they aren't.
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