{"id":222312,"date":"2021-04-08T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-lawmakers-slammed-for-blocking-charter-schools-expansion\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T23:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T20:29:10","slug":"ny-lawmakers-slammed-for-blocking-charter-schools-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-lawmakers-slammed-for-blocking-charter-schools-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY lawmakers slammed for blocking charter schools expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NY lawmakers slammed for blocking charter schools expansion<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The chief state official who authorizes charter schools blasted Albany lawmakers for refusing to lift the cap to open more of the popular, alternative schools to accommodate pent-up parental demand in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. There\u2019s a big disconnect between elected officials and their constituents regarding charter schools,\u201d said Joseph Belluck, chairman of the SUNY Charter School Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parents in New York City want more charter schools. There are waiting lists in all of the existing charter schools. There aren\u2019t enough seats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belluck said he found the opposition to charter school expansion especially \u201cincredible\u201d because the schools were a \u201clifeline\u201d to students and parents during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Even while educating kids remotely, Belluck said there were examples of charter schools staff delivering food to homes of their students and helping families cope with deaths.<\/p>\n

Belluck noted SUNY \u2014 one of New York\u2019s two charter school authorizes along with the state Board of Regents \u2014 gave preliminary app<\/a>roval to 11 new charter schools to open in the city \u2014 but they can\u2019t because the cap on licenses has been reached.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of disappointment that we will not be able to meet the demand. It\u2019s disappointing. It\u2019s frustrating. The parental demand is there. It\u2019s irrefutable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The cap is set at 460 statewide, with 290 set aside for New York City, which has already hit that limit.<\/p>\n

There are 92 unused charters left for the rest of the state but they can\u2019t be used in the city \u2014 where the demand is \u2014 without a change in state law.<\/p>\n

Instead, a scandal-weakened Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought a much more modest proposal: reauthorizing 20 so-called \u201czombie\u201d licenses \u2014 those surrendered by schools that closed \u2014 to new charter school applicants.<\/p>\n

But Democratic lawmakers who control the state Assembly and Senate \u2014 and aligned with the anti-charter teachers union \u2014 blocked the idea from appearing in the state budget.<\/p>\n

Assembly Education Committee Chairman Michael Benedetto (D-Bronx) claimed \u201cthere\u2019s no appetite\u201d in the Democratic conference to expand the charter school sector\u2019s footprint in New York.<\/p>\n

The teachers\u2019 union fiercely opposes charter schools, which are privately managed, publicly funded schools that have a longer school day and year and whose staffers are mostly non-union. Students in charter schools often outperform their counterparts in traditional public schools on the state\u2019s standardized math and English exams. <\/p>\n

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New York State Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, the
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Benedetto did not dispute that union influence impacts the legislative resistance to charter school expansion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be lying if I didn\u2019t say we consulted with the NYSUT and the UFT. They are a force in New York State politics,\u201d said Benedetto, a retired Bronx school teacher and former union rep.<\/p>\n

Benedetto also parroted criticism the union often spouts about charter schools \u2014 that their finances and policies are not audited or scrutinized as closely as traditional public schools are. He particularly questioned stricter disciplinary policies critics say lead to more student suspensions and push outs. <\/p>\n

\u201cUntil we have a more level playing field, I don\u2019t see lifting the charter school cap happening,\u201d said Benedetto, who in 2019 introduced a series<\/a> of bills aimed at limiting charter schools.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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