{"id":405849,"date":"2022-02-15T04:49:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/assemblyman-ramos-charters-are-a-cure-not-a-virus\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T04:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:49:45","slug":"assemblyman-ramos-charters-are-a-cure-not-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/assemblyman-ramos-charters-are-a-cure-not-a-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"#Assemblyman Ramos charters are a cure, not a virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Assemblyman Ramos charters are a cure, not a virus<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a bizarre tirade likening charter schools to COVID,  Assemblyman Phil Ramos exposed  himself and like-minded Democratic lawmakers as beyond ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharter schools have kind of taken on the characteristics of coronavirus. We create a vaccine, and they morph into something else,\u201d like the Delta and Omicron variants,  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/mem\/Phil-Ramos\/contact\/\">Ramos<\/a> (D-Central Islip) charged. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and since it was an NAACP-sponsored forum, he threw in the claim that charters  impose \u201ca discriminatory system on our people.\u201d  He also called the charter movement a bunch of \u201cpoverty pimps.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His actual gripe, it turns out, is that a second charter school just got OK\u2019d to open in his area, offering families a chance to escape from the 7,500-student Central Islip school district, where (per State Education Department data) just 39% of black and 40% of white third-graders test as proficient in English, and only 29% of Hispanics. The math scores are terrible, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Ramos-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Assemblyman Phil Ramos official headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-21213455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Ramos-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Ramos-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Ramos-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Philip Ramos is an Assembly member for the 6th District of the New York Assembly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charters, in short, offer hope for the kids, but trouble for the schools that Ramos\u2019 teacher-union pals control. He only sees someone stealing the students as if the regular system owns them and the taxpayer funds that are supposed to support their education.<\/p>\n<p>Families see liberation, but Ramos &amp; Co. only see someone taking their control away.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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We create a vaccine, and they morph into something else,\u201d like the Delta and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Ramos-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125715,73787,43,10574,87789,71972,72939],"class_list":["post-405849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-14-22","tag-charter-schools","tag-editorial","tag-education","tag-john-liu","tag-new-york-state-assembly","tag-teachers-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}