Degise drove them all away

For a city with a billion-dollar budget, the fact that we need to rely on facebook posts by councilmen to learn about critical city services is pathetic.

One of the best tech recruiters in NYC: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordon-jonas-bb963aa4

I blame fulop

There is a 36-year-old man fighting for his life as a result of this hit and run. Please do the right thing and report it: 201-915-1345

Details?

The city has budget adjustment for waste, too. It’s called tax increases.

True in NY but is Nj law the same? I haven’t seen any cases or statutory support.

cuffing season

If you can’t save it make Peking Duck?

Ah yes, “all of this is widely known” — a reliable proxy for real data!

Every claim you’ve made so far is wrong. First you said charter schools perform worse. Wrong.

Now you’re saying this charter school won’t accept special needs kids. A two-minute search of Kindle Education’s website shows you’re wrong again:

“My child has an IEP. Will this school be a good fit for them?

Kindle Education is committed to serving all students, including those with special needs and learning differences. Our emphasis on personalized learning and low adult to student ratio may make us a good fit for students who experience challenges in a traditional classroom setting. If you have more specific questions about the services we provide or about your child’s specific needs, we recommend that you reach out to us using the contact information below so that we can answer your questions.”

https://www.kindleeducation.org/faqs

Okay so we agree they perform better. But you still think they shouldn’t exist? Got it.

Let’s talk statistics — a Stanford study in 2015 concluded that urban charter school students perform better than their public school peers.

There are plenty of arguments that the funding could be put to better use. But the argument that charter schools are by definition worse than our failing public schools is just wrong.

“Our findings show urban charter schools in the aggregate provide significantly higher levels of annual growth in both math and reading compared to their TPS peers. Specifically, students enrolled in urban charter schools experience 0.055 standard deviations (s.d.’s) greater growth in math and 0.039 s.d.’s greater growth in reading per year than their matched peers in TPS. These results translate to urban charter students receiving the equivalent of roughly 40 days of additional learning per year in math and 28 additional days of learning per year in reading.”

(http://urbancharters.stanford.edu/download/Urban%20Charter%20School%20Study%20Report%20on%2041%20Regions.pdf)

And how many of our public schools would have or should have closed by now if they weren’t kept on life support by an incompetent BOE and city government?

Not saying charter schools are good or bad but the idea that they don’t last as long as failing schools (even if true) isn’t a compelling argument that they’re worse than the alternative.