Ravitch: "Why Cuomo Loves Charter Schools" [View all]
It's $$$$. Lots of it.
I'm sure you're shocked.
Interesting tie-in to DER ( "Dems" for Ed Reform"
and ..... uh, oh....., gulp,....... Obama.
>>>Governor Andrew Cuomo, who once promised to be a lobbyist for students, is in reality a lobbyist for charter schools, which enroll about 3% of the state’s students.
He is not a lobbyist for the other 97%, whose schools are cutting their budgets because of Cuomo’s tax cap.
How could this be?
Geoff Decker of Chalkbeat, a New York City’s nonpartisan education blog, explains Cuomo’s close connection with the super-wealthy financiers of the charter schools in New York City.
Decker reviewed campaign filings and reports:
Cuomo’s reelection bid has so far received nearly $400,000 from a cadre of wealthy supporters of Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter School network, according to an updated tally of newly-released campaign filings. Some money has even come from Moskowitz’s political action committee, Great Public Schools, which has given $65,000 to Cuomo since 2011.
But that’s not all.
By one tally of the 2014 filings, Cuomo racked up at least $800,000 in donations from 27 bankers, real estate executives, business executives, philanthropists and advocacy groups who have flocked to charter schools and other education causes in recent years.>>>>>>> http://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/06/why-cuomo-loves-charters/
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