She embarrassed the administration during a public fight
over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.
Last March and April, during the height of a battle
over charter school space between charter advocates and the de Blasio administration, F.E.S. spent $ 3.5 million, the filings show.
The mayor has generally avoided talking about charters since his unsuccessful fight
over charter school space in March 2014.
City Hall has largely demurred when facing Moskowitz in the past — ever since losing a high - profile fight with her and the network in the spring of 2014
over charter school space — with officials saying they wanted to avoid unnecessary conflict.
She embarrassed the administration during a public fight
over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.
Not exact matches
For eight years, she's been the lightning rod of the
charter movement, raising millions from hedge funders and foundations as she aggressively worked her close connections to the Bloomberg administration to take
over space in public
schools.
De Blasio's power
over city
schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate
charters in both public and private
space.
A
charter school network's plan to double in size
over the next few years could reignite a war
over classroom
space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.
At 9:40 a.m., leaders of New York City's
charter networks join parents to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to support 50 new
charter schools in public
space over the next two years, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
While several of his fellow southern Brooklyn elected officials were criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio
over Hizzoner's decision to allow plans for two
charter schools to share
space with traditional public
schools in Bensonhurst to move forward, state Sen.
Success secured its place as the city's most conspicuous
charter network this year, as Success» founder and C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz publicly sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio
over space for several Success
schools.
Still, de Blasio is often at odds with the sector and its backers
over granting
charter schools space in public buildings.
The
charters that will offering pre-K for the first time include
schools from the Success Academy network, which has sparred with the de Blasio administration
over school space issues.
Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio
over space issues for her
charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's
schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.
It's a strategy that's worked for her before, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo came in as an unofficial savior of
charter schools during a battle with de Blasio
over school space.
But it's likely to be just the first step in what promises to be a long fight for Moskowitz
over public
school space and the future of the controversial
charter network.
At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on
school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing
charter schools to take
over space in traditional public
schools.
But her battles with the city's education department
over space in underused
school buildings resonate throughout the book, illustrating just one of the many obstacles faced by
charter entrepreneurs nationwide.
To this day the fight continues to rage
over our decision to collocate
charter schools in public
school space.
Seven out of the state's 15 top - scoring
schools on math proficiency tests this year were Success Academy
charter schools — the same network targeted by Mayor de Blasio earlier this year in a fight
over classroom
space.
If democracy were the real value at issue, how is it that the political elite, not to mention the union, are indifferent to the fact that well
over 10,000 parents applied for a placement in a
charter school, only be told that there is no
space for their child?
Jeremiah Kittredge of FES his Mayor de Blasio
over blocking NYC
charter schools from getting
space: Team de Blasio's own numbers show «no room for
charters» is a lie.
Over the past 12 years, the city has provided free
space in underutilized
school buildings for
charters to open.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, for example, this week accused the city of favoring one of Moskowitz's
charters over the
schools it shares
space with.
As the recipient of six individual grants from the U.S. Department of Education (totaling $ 33.6 million), as well as three CDFI awards (totaling $ 3 million), CSDC has partnered with
charter schools to develop
over 6 million square feet of safe, affordable, state - of - the - art educational
space across the country, providing access to academic excellence for more than 66,000 students so far.
Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate
over the practice of requiring traditional public
schools to share under - used
space with
charter schools.
The district is in a legal fight with the California
Charter Schools Association
over the funding formula used to allocate
space for
charters.
Over the next five years, Boston
Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children b
Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available
spaces in high - performing district,
charter, and Catholic
schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children b
schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing
school to the majority of its children by 2025.
The good news there, said Tim Nicolette, 38, who took
over last August as executive director of the Massachusetts
Charter Public School Association, is that there's still space for some 10,000 new charter seats in urban dis
Charter Public
School Association, is that there's still
space for some 10,000 new
charter seats in urban dis
charter seats in urban districts.
This is a three card monte mix with snake oil.This out right out of the play book to slip
Charter Schools into the public schools for space and free rent.You see when Threefifths tells you something, You say I am a trouble maker, Always negative.People wake up.Just like the gentrification vampires are taking over.You got charter school vampires now who will be taking over your
Charter Schools into the public schools for space and free rent.You see when Threefifths tells you something, You say I am a trouble maker, Always negative.People wake up.Just like the gentrification vampires are taking over.You got charter school vampires now who will be taking over your
Schools into the public
schools for space and free rent.You see when Threefifths tells you something, You say I am a trouble maker, Always negative.People wake up.Just like the gentrification vampires are taking over.You got charter school vampires now who will be taking over your
schools for
space and free rent.You see when Threefifths tells you something, You say I am a trouble maker, Always negative.People wake up.Just like the gentrification vampires are taking
over.You got
charter school vampires now who will be taking over your
charter school vampires now who will be taking
over your
school.
That's also because Success's victory
over de Blasio in 2014 directly led to state legislation that has guaranteed the continued growth of the
charter sector in New York City: the city is now required to either find
charters space in public
schools or site them in private buildings at the city's expense.
It's a stark contrast from two years ago, when de Blasio avoided even the uttering words «
charter school» in public for months after his loss to Moskowitz
over school space.
It's a strategy that's worked for her before, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo came in as an unofficial savior of
charter schools during a battle with de Blasio
over school space.
On the other hand, the pendulum in the
charter space swung from quantity to quality, and restrictive authorizing and accountability based on narrow historic measures (and proficiency
over growth) lead to more closures, fewer new
schools and less innovative models.
School space conflicts have also provided
charter leaders with their biggest win
over the mayor — the sector roundly defeated de Blasio in a months - long battle
over space sharing agreements for New York's largest
charter network, Success Academy, in early 2014.
«With the threat, the defunding of public education and then also the co-location effort, with Metro
Charter School wanting to take
over so - called extra
space, this community was in an uproar, the parents were in an uproar.