{"id":529774,"date":"2022-12-21T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/will-hochul-let-union-pawns-keep-strangling-charter-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:38:14","slug":"will-hochul-let-union-pawns-keep-strangling-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-hochul-let-union-pawns-keep-strangling-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"#Will Hochul let union pawns keep strangling charter schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27398ac89bb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27398ac89bb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-hochul-let-union-pawns-keep-strangling-charter-schools\/#%E2%80%9CWill_Hochul_let_union_pawns_keep_strangling_charter_schools%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Will Hochul let union pawns keep strangling charter schools?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWill_Hochul_let_union_pawns_keep_strangling_charter_schools%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Will Hochul let union pawns keep strangling charter schools?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Gov. George Pataki signed into law the New York Charter Schools Act of 1998 one week before Christmas 24 years ago. In the generation since, hundreds of thousands of children across New York City and the state have received a higher quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Academic outcomes consistently confirm this. Charter-school students have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyccharterschools.org\/policy-issues\/achievement\/\">outperformed<\/a> their district-school counterparts on elementary and middle-school assessments, per annual state Education Department data.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this success, charters remain c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed and threatened, which poses a challenge \u2014 and opportunity \u2014 to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Their viability and growth are now in her hands. She might take some lessons from how the law almost never came to be.<\/p>\n<p>Pataki first proposed charter-schools legislation in January 1997, nearly two years before it became law. Both houses of the Legislature, however, had no appetite for the issue for the same reason: New York State United Teachers \u2014 including Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers chief who then headed the New York City chapter \u2014 was hotly opposed and effectively leased both political parties, Democrats, who controlled the Assembly, and Republicans, who controlled the Senate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_George_Pataki_visits_Uzhhorod_13647188b.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Gov. George Pataki\" class=\"wp-image-25084742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_George_Pataki_visits_Uzhhorod_13647188b.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_George_Pataki_visits_Uzhhorod_13647188b.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_George_Pataki_visits_Uzhhorod_13647188b.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_George_Pataki_visits_Uzhhorod_13647188b.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. George Pataki proposed charter-schools legislation in January 1997 and signed it into law in 1998.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ukrinform\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The governor nonetheless began legislative negotiations, which on occasion became direct between his and teacher-union staff. This cut out the middleman \u2014 that is, the Legislature. It was an early lesson for me of how joined at the hip are lawmakers and teacher unions.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made a counteroffer: a cap of six charter schools with mandatory unionization, which one union official described to me as the \u201cRhode Island model.\u201d Rhode Island\u2019s population was 1\/18th the size of New York\u2019s and had perhaps the nation\u2019s worst charter law.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>One of the few times I sat in the governor\u2019s actual office in the Albany statehouse, some of us recommended he reject the speaker\u2019s puny, unserious offer and got pushback from a higher-up who desired a press-release victory. Pataki listened intently to both sides and remained laconic, which was typical when junior staff were present.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no expert in negotiations, but it came down to two choices at the 11th hour: Take a fraction of a loaf and hope to build on it somehow; or walk away understanding a bad deal is worse than no deal.<\/p>\n<p>To his great credit, Pataki chose the latter approach \u2014 no deal. Accepting a tempting but fatally unworkable charter law would have been a momentary, hollow victory while all but ensuring the issue would never be revisited.<\/p>\n<p>He later told me he would fight again the next year, which he did. The stalemate continued during the 1998 legislative session, but the governor persisted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/September-8-2022-NYC-Public-Schools-reopen.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"charter schools\" class=\"wp-image-25084764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/September-8-2022-NYC-Public-Schools-reopen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/September-8-2022-NYC-Public-Schools-reopen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/September-8-2022-NYC-Public-Schools-reopen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/September-8-2022-NYC-Public-Schools-reopen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Charter schools remain capped which poses a challenge \u2014 and opportunity \u2014 to Gov. Kathy Hochul to make a change.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pataki was re-elected later that year, as were both legislative majorities. But something did change: Senate Republicans were upset at their teacher-union allies for refusing to support their candidate who unsuccessfully challenged a Democratic senator in Brooklyn. They then passed Pataki\u2019s charter-school proposal in a post-election, lame-duck session in November. It was political payback and jump-started negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>It was cold hard cash that led to a breakthrough. State legislators hadn\u2019t had a pay raise in a decade and were hungry, but the clock was ticking: They had to pass one before year\u2019s end or wait another <em>two <\/em>years before the next opportunity. Since legislators\u2019 paychecks meant more than teacher-union influence, Pataki exploited this leverage and delivered a robust charter law for New York\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Since before the ink dried on that law, it has been under political siege from teacher unions and their robotic allies in the Legislature. Fortunately, Pataki and the subsequent three Democratic governors protected the law and won key expansions including the number of charter schools allowed and space-sharing with New York City district schools.<\/p>\n<p>Charter schools remain <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2021\/s4200\">threatened<\/a> with over-regulation, loss of space-sharing and higher costs by lawmakers under pressure from teacher unions. State Sen. Brad Hoylman is pushing a bill that would put added burdens on charters while the United Federation of Teachers plans to use a veto the Legislature gave it in the class-size reduction law to block charter co-locations.<\/p>\n<p>And the legislative refusal to lift the statutory cap on charters in the city, despite overwhelming <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyccharterschools.org\/policy-issues\/growth-demand\/\">parental support<\/a>, is an ongoing disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul, just elected in her own right, faces a leadership test. Will she follow the path of her four predecessors to ensure viable, growing charter-school options for New York\u2019s children? Or will she acquiesce to the union\u2019s effort to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nysut.org\/news\/2022\/january\/testimony-pk12\">squash<\/a> this successful education reform?<\/p>\n<p>She could further succeed by empowering non-wealthy parents to choose any school for their children, public or private, as can wealthy parents. But enabling greater equality in education would entail prioritizing children over teacher unions.<\/p>\n<p>We will soon know Hochul\u2019s negotiating mettle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Peter Murphy, senior adviser to the Invest in Education Coalition, was vice president at the SUNY Charter Schools Institute and New York Charter Schools Association.<\/em>\n                        <\/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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