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The education model that fell apart
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 05, 2015 10:23am |
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| Author | Scott Waldman |
| News Date | Friday, April 3, 2015 10:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Once heralded as a new beginning for children living in grinding poverty and stuck in a long-troubled school district, Albany’s charter system has so far failed to live up to that promise. Five of the 12 charter schools that opened in the last decade have already closed, and others are being skeptically eyed by state officials.
In Albany, all of the charter schools currently operating were supported by the Brighter Choice Foundation, created by Pataki-era officials who helped write the state’s charter laws. Once considered a gold standard of charter operations, two Brighter Choice middle schools were closed by the state’s Charter Schools Institute after just five years in operation, because 80 percent of the students were not proficient in English and math. Other charter schools in Albany, including an all-girls high school with a graduation rate of 51 percent, could be shuttered in the near future for poor performance.
Now, the Albany city school district is again looking to create space for hundreds of charter students returning to the system. Lesko said the district is interested in purchasing the soon-to-be shuttered charter schools, just as it did with the former New Covenant Charter School building.
Meanwhile, the taxpayer funds that paid for the charter schools, often through leases far above market rates, has essentially evaporated.
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