NYC Approves Charter School Expansion

Advocates for charter schools have received some good news from New York City:

In a huge legislative coup for Mayor Bloomberg at the statewide level (where has has not generally enjoyed great success over his first two terms), New York's two houses of the legislature have passed bills approving a hike in the number of charter schools permitted statewide.

The bills also called for other reforms, including teacher evaluations tied to student performance - similar to measures that have passed in Colorado, Delaware and Tennessee (the latter two were Race to the Top fund winners in Round One) - concepts that were not exactly favored by the teachers' union in New York.

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