Comrade De Blasio Strikes Again: Shutters 3 Charter Schools, Evicts Hundreds Of Kids From Their Schools Yeah, can’t have proven successful operating in public school buildings, that would show up the union, wouldn’t it? Via NY Post: Mayor de Blasio brought down the hammer Thursday on three charter schools operated by nemesis Eva Moskowitz, leaving hundreds of kids without classrooms this fall. “This has to be the saddest day for the Success Academy’s children, family, teachers, school leaders,” Moskowitz said after meeting with stunned charter parents in Harlem. “Right now, our kids are being evicted. Evicted out of their school. It’s wrong and we need an explanation. You’re going to have to ask Mayor Deblasio what the motivations are for a decision that will hurt so many children now and, frankly, forever.” Fulfilling a campaign pledge to limit charter expansions within public school buildings, de Blasio revoked approvals granted last year by the Bloomberg administration to two new Success Academy schools and to a third that planned to expand. http://nypost.com/2014/02/27/de-blasio-administration-halts-expansion-of-success-academy-charter-schools/
He begins his fourth month in office today and he is already disliked by virtually everyone. And he won by a landslide.
Less than 1 in 4 voters in NYC bothered to vote. That's a perfect environment for union back socialists. And now he's paying back the teacher's union who always claims that their demands are always for the kids but they are always for themselves. Apparently these charter schools were teaching subjects such as reading and mathmatics. Meanwhile in the public schools the emphasis is on alternative lifestyles and climate change.
Gip, I agree with you re: unions' self-interest. In my former life I provided financial counsel to school corporations planning building or renovation projects. My experience with Anderson, a huge union town (former GM/UAW stronghold) proved your point. The union was so bent on boosting its agenda that it got its candidates elected to the board, fired the very competent superintendent (and me because he brought me in), and today is essentially bankrupt. They've closed schools and financially speaking have had their heads up their butts for several years. Now the kids and families are paying the price.