A poison pill inserted in the state budget could prevent New York City’s oldest poverty fighting group from opening a charter school in Harlem, The Post has learned.
could prevent New York City’s oldest poverty fighting group from opening a charter school in Harlem, The Post has learned. to allow 14 new charter schools to open in the city. But there’s one significant catch: a new charter school cannot be placed in any city community school district where 55% of the students are already enrolled in the publicly-funded alternative schools.
The new state budget might prevent the Mission Society from starting a proposed charter school in Harlem.McCabe-Thompson said the Mission Society serves mostly poor black and Hispanic youths — as would its charter school — and the organization itself is run by minorities. The State University of New York, one of the state’s charter school authorizers, had approved the Mission Society’s bid to open a charter school in 2019.A SUNY official said its reading of the the law bars Minisink charter school from opening — at least in Harlem’s District 5. “It’s sad that there should be any `price to pay’ in order for more good public schools to be allowed to start. We should be working together to make it easier, not putting up nonsensical barriers,” Merriman said.
“That exclusion successfully advocated by Senator Cleare with overwhelming support of legislators is necessary to avoid further aggravating a charter-oversaturation that directly imperils the public school system,” said Sen. John Liu , a charter school critic who chairs the legislative body’s committee on New York City education. According to sources, Harlem state Sen. Cordell Cleare pushed for a 55 percent charter school enrollment cap to prevent more schools from opening in her district.Gov.
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