John Liu
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In a stealth bid to strangle the charter-school sector, state Sen. John Liu is providing a invoice that might take away the SUNY Trustees’ proper to grant or renew charters, giving the state Board of Regents final energy.
Insiders just like the Queens Democrat know completely nicely that the Regents are a creature of the lecturers unions, which despise charters as a result of these different public colleges expose the failings of the common public techniques that serve the unions so nicely.
Crucially, charters show that ZIP code doesn’t must be future, by serving to youngsters from low-income, largely minority neighborhoods grow to be high students — a problem the common system has largely given up on.
Realizing that the Regents (who're successfully chosen by the Meeting speaker, near-inevitably a Democrat beholden to the unions) might stifle charters, then-Gov. George Pataki insisted on giving the SUNY Board of Trustees equal energy to grant charters within the landmark 1998 legislation that allowed them.
The division of energy has served New York nicely: Even Liu doesn’t level to charters that shouldn’t exist as a result of they fail the children; he merely claims the SUNY board has violated some procedural guidelines, charging it with “failing to think about the massive focus of constitution colleges in sure districts.”
Sure: Charters overwhelmingly search to open in districts the place the common colleges have given up. What’s unsuitable with that, senator?
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