Fark reports:
NYC charter school's test scores through the roof, and families are scrambling to get their kids in. Guess which political party is blocking it from the neighborhood. Oh c'mon, guess
It's truly astounding.
The New York Daily News reports:
So rabid are some parents and elected officials in loathing charter schools that they are all too willing - no, eager - to deny aspiring children the chance for high-quality educations.
This is the awful theme of a lawsuit filed Friday to block the city's most successful charter school operation from locating in free classroom space in the old Brandeis High School building on the upper West Side.
More than 700 families applied to have kindergarten and first-grade children admitted to the Upper West Success Academy Charter School, and 184 of the kids won entry by lottery. There is a reason for the huge demand:
Children at Harlem Success Academy, of which the new school is a part, learn. On last year's state exams, 95% of third-graders tested as proficient in English - and all scored at or above grade level in math.
Community leaders should be clamoring for a school that delivers results of such high caliber. But no, they are not.
In line with the United Federation of Teachers, the power elite has lined up against charter kids. The perpetrators are Public Advocate Bill de Blasio; Councilwoman Gale Brewer; Assembly members Linda Rosenthal and Danny O'Donnell; state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, and Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Charles Rangel.
(Brewer, by the way, announced in October that she'd "strangle" any parent who shifted out of a local, traditionally run school into a charter.)
You'll want to read the whole article. Public education really is a dangerous cartel.
