A Union Charter Flunks Out: Randi Weingarten’s model school closes after years of failure.

The Wall Street Journal a teachers union experimental school that failed :

The school’s results speak for themselves: In 2014, 11% of students were rated proficient in English and 18% in math compared to 28% and 36% in schools with similar demographics, and 59% and 92% at the Harlem Success Academy, which enrolls more kids with disabilities. The union charter performed worse than 96% of its peers on subjective standards like “instructional core” and “systems for improvement” measured from parents, teacher and student surveys. On almost all counts the district middle school next door did better.

Threatened with non-renewal this year, the union decided to close the school. New York UFT chief Michael Mulgrew blames “SUNY’s narrow focus on state tests,” but only 12 of the 147 charters that SUNY authorizes have not been renewed. Ms. Weingarten washed her hands of the experiment last year, saying through a spokesperson that she “hadn’t been involved in a long time.”

The great moments of government schools.