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The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

In Albany, the added cost is $ 7 million; New York City faces added charter school expenditures of $ 42 million.

Other Democrats took shots at the education portion of the bill, which shifted the regional tallies for charter schools between upstate and New York City, and offered up $ 250 million for private schools in prior - year reimbursements.

The charter issue became an unexpected budget battle after Mayor de Blasio stripped $ 210 million in capital funding from the city's charter schools and rescinded co-location agreements with three charters operated by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowcity's charter schools and rescinded co-location agreements with three charters operated by former City Councilwoman Eva MoskowCity Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

The city, under the tentative plan, would be on the hook to pay up to $ 40 million to cover the rents of charter schools located in private buildings.

Voters in the city of Albany defeated proposed charter revisions, but the question of spending $ 200 million on a new high school will likely come down to absentee ballots.

The new laws prevent de Blasio from charging rent to charters as he had said he would, require the city to find space for charters in D.O.E. buildings or to fund those schools up to $ 40 million for space in private buildings, and implement other safeguards for charters after an intensive charter lobbying effort in Albany.

The new mayor enraged the charter school movement by vowing to charge schools getting rent - free space in city buildings and scrapping a $ 210 million charter building fund.

Cuomo's plan also shifts at least $ 56 million in costs to New York City — but also includes more than $ 400 million in funding increases for the city, and would lift the cap that prevents charter schools from expanding in the five borouCity — but also includes more than $ 400 million in funding increases for the city, and would lift the cap that prevents charter schools from expanding in the five boroucity, and would lift the cap that prevents charter schools from expanding in the five boroughs.

The city's board of ethics accused Mayor Richard Thomas of getting $ 100,000 from a charter school where he was a trustee based on a disclosure form.

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

Meanwhile, on the thorny issue of charter school funding — a tuition aid un-freeze that would see aid increase by $ 1,500 per student paid out by a school district — a potentially large hit for any locality, including $ 200 million for New York City — the proposal would be to have flat funding for charters this year.

The IBO study estimated the per student cost for charters located in city facilities was $ 16,011 compared to $ 16,660 for district public schools — or $ 449 less.

New York City's new public schools chief wants to shift $ 210 million away from charter schools to pay for Mayor Bill de Blasio's planned expansion of prekindergarten programs.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito backed a city program last year that provided $ 32.5 million in city funds so a charter school in her East Harlem district could build a new home...

Late Friday afternoon, schools chancellor Carmen Fariña proposed a change to the city's capital plan that would divert $ 210 million from charter school construction and partnerships and toward pre-kindergarten expansion.

During his testimony last week, De Blasio also complained that Cuomo's budget plan shifts $ 198.3 million from the city Department of Education to charter schools Cuomo noted that students who attend charters are public school students, too.

The de Blasio administration struck its clearest blow yet against the city's charter schools last week when schools chancellor Carmen Fariña announced that a $ 210 million pot in the Department of Education's capital budget would be diverted away from charter school construction, likely towards the construction of pre-K seats under the mayor's plan.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

Dan Loeb, who with his wife made $ 114,000 in contributions, is the chairman of the board of Success Academy, New York City's largest and most powerful charter school network.

It would cost the state just over $ 100 million to fund 256 charter schools statewide at an equal level, said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School charter schools statewide at an equal level, said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Charter School Center.

(New York, NY)-- A new audit released today of the South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures and the Arts by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer found unauthorized expenditures that include travel, $ 16,000 spent on MetroCards that could not be accounted for and thousands in overpayments to the principal.

The budget also extends for two years the so - called millionaire's tax, preserving up to $ 4.5 billion in annual revenue, and keeps in place a cap limiting the number of charter schools, both positive outcomes for city public schools.

De Blasio also used the speech to extend a rare olive branch to charter schools, announcing the city would spend $ 5 million — the lowest financial commitment of all the new policies announced Wednesday — to foster collaboration between 50 charter and district schools.

Mr. de Blasio also intends to punish well - endowed co-located charters like Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools by charging rent, which the city's Independent Budget Office says could raise $ 92 million.

The unions say the changes could cost city public schools over $ 183 million from increased charter tuition and payments for charter personnel and over $ 88 million for the increase in rental assistance.

Klein, who oversaw more than 1,600 public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of charter schools in the city.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

StudentsFirstNY, a group that promotes charter schools, stricter teacher evaluations and changes to teacher tenure, has spent more than $ 500,000 to run its own advertisements in New York City and Albany supporting Mr. Cuomo's plans.

An investigation by the state teachers union has shown that New York City charter schools alone have at least $ 323 million in unrestricted net assets, most of it in cash.

The process has become a major issue in Community Board 10, where the city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.

On Top of the News Success Academy Gets $ 8.5 Million to Add Charter Schools in New York City New York Times 7/30/15

As a result, whenever charter schools want to rezone a building for their use, they must go through a relatively arduous and uncertain city - level process, with costs that operators cited at upward of $ 65,000.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sSchools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sschools and charter schoolsschools.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

Additionally, the city of Hartford pays teachers» health insurance; offers a myriad of teaching options, including experimental programs and charter and magnet schools; and grants veteran teachers $ 100 annual bonuses for every year served.

At Central Education Center, a new charter school south of this city, some students will have their pick of $ 35,000 - a-year jobs right after graduation because of the opportunities they have here to take postsecondary - level technical courses while finishing high school.

And unlike charter networks that rely heavily on outside philanthropy, Icahn schools run solely on the roughly $ 14,000 the city provides annually for each student (amounting to about $ 250,000 per classroom).

The Baltimore City school district's recently unveiled budget proposal cuts roughly $ 5.5 million from its 34 charter schools.

At the schools de Blasio cited, the city recently spent $ 2 million in the union section, and $ 350,000 for the charter.

Friendship Public Charter Schools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool clasCharter Schools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool clasSchools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool clascharter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool classchools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool classrooms.

A small New York City charter school opened five years ago with an attention - grabbing premise: Paying teachers $ 125,000 salaries would lure ace faculty and help poor children learn.

Just recently news broke in Milwaukee that a charter school, Universal Academy, abruptly closed its doors on a third school in the city in six months, leaving Milwaukee Public Schools and Wisconsin taxpayers with a nearly $ 1 million dollar tab.

CSDC will manage the $ 12 million top - to - bottom rehabilitation which will also house KIPP Oklahoma City and EPIC, two other charter school providers.

The Center City charters, converted this year from seven Catholic schools, have a surplus of $ 1.4 million from facility funding, according to their budget.

Bill discusses the de Blasio administration pulling $ 210 million from the city's charter schools, the moratorium on co-locations, and the statewide repercussions of Mayor de Blasio's actions.

Through the College - Ready Promise, Gates gave the city's five major high - performing charter - school - management organizations a combined $ 60 million in funding for the program.