{"id":258244,"date":"2021-05-25T05:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kathryn-garcia-backs-lifting-city-charter-school-cap\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T05:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:09:43","slug":"kathryn-garcia-backs-lifting-city-charter-school-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kathryn-garcia-backs-lifting-city-charter-school-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kathryn Garcia backs lifting city charter school cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kathryn Garcia backs lifting city charter school cap<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia wants Albany to expand the number of New York City charter schools, she said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do support raising the charter cap because I want every kid to have the opportunity,\u201d Garcia told a virtual candidate forum for charter school parents and supporters on Monday night. <\/p>\n

The former sanitation commissioner said the cap had become a \u201cpolitical football\u201d for leaders in Albany and City Hall to lob back and forth, and called the never-ending debate \u201cnot particularly helpful to kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to stand up for you,\u201d Garcia told charter parents, professing her desire for all public schools \u2014 charter or otherwise \u2014 to succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you\u2019re a charter school does not mean that I think you\u2019re being selfish,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s become too political, like you\u2019re not pure enough on this or that. I just don\u2019t feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s comments put her with Ray McGuire as the only Democratic mayoral candidates to express full-throated support for raising the cap, which could not be done without app<\/a>roval from state leaders in Albany.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would lift the charter caps, the waiting list is way too long,\u201d McGuire said during his appearance at Monday\u2019s forum, which was hosted by Civic Builders and the Achievement First and Democracy Prep charter school networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who are on the waiting list they ought to have the opportunity to make sure that they get the same quality education,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cWe need to lift the cap immedia<\/a>tely so that every neighborhood has a choice of good schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kathryn Garcia and Ray McGuire are the only mayoral candidates to officially support lifting the charter school cap.<\/figcaption>
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But entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who rounded out the three candidates at Monday\u2019s forum, stopped short of committing to lifting the cap. Instead, Yang said he would start by opening nee schools with dormant charter licenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my first move, to try and get those already authorized charters used,\u201d the former presidential candidate said. \u201cAnd then we can figure out what the next steps are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s position echoed that of fellow polling leader Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who was absent from Monday\u2019s forum despite being backed by a pro-charter Super PAC.<\/p>\n

Adams told The Post earlier this month that the city should \u201cidentify those charter schools that are failing and those are the schools we need to replace with the schools who are doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio is a longtime\u00a0charter school antagonist.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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