According to a Wall Street Journal editorial (subscription required), Mayor de Blasio is implementing several plans that will
slow charter school growth including charging them rent for sharing space with district schools:
Not exact matches
And de Blasio, unlike Bloomberg, will now have little power to
slow the
growth of certain
charter networks and to expand others, creating complications for de Blasio's alliance with a coalition of independent
charter schools and his rivalry with Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz.
Similarly on the fight over
charter schools, de Blasio wants to
slow their
growth while Cuomo appears to support their expansion.
At the behest of teachers» unions, Mr. Silver
slowed the
growth of
charter schools.
Despite continued success, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to
slow down the
growth of
charter schools.
However, the pace of new
charter school openings and enrollment
growth in the Bay Area has
slowed in recent years (see Figure 2).
Would the AFT agree that
charter growth should
slow only when they enroll 18 percent of American public
school students?
Ironically, the primary effect of the city's revenue loss from rising
charter payments may have been to
slow the
growth in expenditures in public safety and other city departments, where expenditures rose more slowly than the
school budget.
When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where
school - age population
growth is
slow or declining, as any loss of students to
charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney favour
charter schools, but at a time of probable cuts in federal education spending their
growth may
slow.
While the city's
charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public
school system, the
slow improvement in the
schools overall paralleled the city's
growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's
school system, creating pressure for better
schools and more
schools.
Slowing the
growth of
charter schools won't solve the problems, though; it will only trap students in failing
schools by taking away viable, affordable options for high - quality education.
If an existing
school fails to meet those standards then a future
charter that has not been opened yet would be lost, we would not be able to open those
schools so it would actually
slow down our
growth and it would be a 1 to 1 comparison point....
Growth has
slowed slightly — from 16 percent in 2013 to an estimated 9 percent in 2016 — which could be a sign that
charter schools are approaching capacity.
Despite this,
growth of
charter schools in Rhode Island has been
slow, due to a lack of state funds and a moratorium on the creation of new
schools that was lifted a couple of years ago.
In Massachusetts, the state's tight regulatory statutes governing the opening of new
charters have
slowed the pace of
charter growth, and kept overall
school quality high.