Which over huge, huge community pushback. i did not see the charter movement, did not see the big donors for these places running rallies or ads like that, multimillion dollar ad campaigns. when neighborhood schools got closed against the community wanting them closed, there was no one there to stage rallies except the folks in the neighborhood. you try to close a charter school, there are a lot of people writing big checks. there s a simple difference. the charter school is really literally one of the highest performing schools in the state. the mayor said today on tv that one in four kids are ready for college in new york city. coming from the public school system. and if this school is getting kids ready for college, that s a school that has to be embraced and he, himself, has reversed course and said we need to find a tsh. are charter schools a crowbar to pry open public education? absolutely not. why not? why not, because they re public schools. they re public schools
We re getting into a dangerous territory here. okay. here s the thing i want to know. sure. 160 public schools were closed during bloomberg, some of which over huge, huge community pushback. i did not see the charter movement, did not see the big donors for these places running rallies or ads like that, multimillion dollar ad campaigns. when neighborhood schools got closed against the community wanting them closed, there was no one there to stage rallies except the folks in the neighborhood. you try to close a charter school, there are a lot of people writing big checks. there s a simple difference. the charter school is really literally one of the highest performing schools in the state. the mayor said today on tv that one in four kids are ready for college in new york city. coming from the public school system. and if this school is getting kids ready for college, that s a school that has to be embraced and he, himself, has reversed course and said we need to find a are c
Moscowitz. if you thought that brass knuckle political pay back was something practiced exclusively in the western banks of the hudson river, you were wrong. joining me now is herself, eva moscowitz, founder of charter schools in new york city. i agree with you, and i want to make sure you understand i m playing devil s advocate here. you go to public schools, some kids go to the neighborhood schools, the ones they would walk to if they re lucky. okay. they get everybody. charter schools get students who are maybe smarter, maybe, they get kids who definitely parents who care a little bit more about their upbringing, a little more money, a little more resources. is it fair to compare the results of the two kinds of schools and say charters are better because they get higher
Make sure you understand i m playing devil s advocate here. you go to public schools, some kids go to the neighborhood schools, the ones they would walk to if they re lucky. okay. they get everybody. charter schools get students who are maybe smarter, maybe, they get kids who definitely parents who care a little bit more about their upbringing, a little more money, a little more resources. is it fair to compare the results of the two kinds of schools and say charters are better because they get higher numbers? district schools are zoned according to zip code. you have much more affluent kids. charter schools we admit by random lottery, if you look at our numbers, you ll see the same number of special needs children, english language learners, title one kids, i don t think that s a fair statement. people keep trying to explain away our results, instead of asking, well, how did you get the results?
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