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The state legislative session is underway, and Albany lawmakers have indicated they’re putting raising the charter cap on the back burner, instead focusing on rental assistance to charter schools. While…
We like to tell ourselves failure isn’t an option, but for decades, failure has been the status quo for the education of children of the working class and poor. Failure…
Want to have some ability to choose where your child goes to school? Well, then you’re a racist. So says Randi Weingarten, leader of the American Federation of Teachers. Words…
After a month of political wrangling past its due date, the state finally has a budget for fiscal 2024. But why the wait? For all of Gov. Hochul’s proposed big-ticket…
There is no low to which Albany Democrats will not stoop. Having tried to block new charter schools from opening and limiting the number that are available, now some lawmakers…
Parents were right all along — kids need to be in school to learn. The learning loss resulting from the longest public-school closures imposed on blue-state kids in urban districts…
Defending the Bard These woke accusations against Shakespeare are obscene (“Badly Bashing the Bard,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, March 14). Othello was black. He was perhaps Shakespeare’s most heroic and tragic…
A new study from Success Academy busts a pernicious myth about charter schools and their effect on district schools, particularly those in communities of color. The study shows that charters…
When friends suggested I include charter schools among the places to visit during my recent trip to see innovative learning models in New York City, I was skeptical. I was…
Faced with the undeniable fact city kids attending charters schools do far better on state exams than those stuck in the regular public-school system, critics routinely complain that charters “teach…