New York Schools: The Roar of the Charters by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Charter schools are segregated schools, says Diane Ravitch, who details how Bill DeBlasio gave up the fight against the right and the billionaire backers of the phony charter schools leader Eva Moskowitz. - GWC



New York Schools: The Roar of the Charters by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books: by Diane Ravitch

Consider the court battle initiated by Moskowitz that played out in the midst of the confrontation with the mayor: a judge in New York’s State Supreme Court ruled, as Moskowitz hoped, that the State Comptroller has no power to audit her schools, because they are “not a unit of the state.” Put another way, her schools are not public schools. And, as the public begins to understand what that means, that lesson may ultimately be the undoing of this stealth effort to transfer public funds to support a small number of privately-managed schools, amply endowed by billionaires and foundations, that refuse to pay rent and are devoted to competing with, not helping, the general school population.

What will it mean for New York City to have two school systems, both supported with public money, with one free to choose and remove its students and the other required to accept all students? A recent study found that New York State has the most segregated schools in the nation, and that the charters are even more segregated than the public schools. In 2014, the year that we remember the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, it is passing strange to find that New York City—and school districts across the nation—are embarked on the re-creation of a dual school system.

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