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February 25, 2009
Nearly three-quarters of parent voters want more charter schools
Yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll results showed the chancellor’s popularity holding steady. But no one would call him popular — his approval rating has never broken the 50 percent mark.
Not true for charter schools. The poll results Quinnipiac released today show that 67 percent of registered voters in New York City want to see more charter schools open. Among public school parents, the number rose to 72 percent. Support for an expansion was highest in Brooklyn and the Bronx, where charters are prevalent. One caveat: Only registered voters were polled. In a city of immigrants, many public school parents are not registered to vote.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time Quinnipiac has asked about charters. A poll commissioned by a pro-charter group last year found that more than 80 percent of Harlem voters thought parents should have an option other than their local school. But in that poll, three-quarters of voters said their local schools were not good. Nearly half of voters responding to today’s Quinnipiac poll said they are satisfied with their local school. (At 48 percent, however, that number has nearly as much room for improvement as Chancellor Klein’s popularity rate.)
The poll also confirms the finding from last January that New Yorkers want to see mayoral control continue, but they aren’t terribly happy about the way Mayor Bloomberg has exercised his control.
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February 25th, 2009 8:29 pm
Not at all surprising that parents actually want a choice in where hteir kids go to school. It’s amazing that parents have waited this long to demand it, or that 30% wouldn’t want more choice in where there kids go to school. Let’s hope that the growth of charters continues to coincide with the closure of more terrible schools, the replacement strategy has the potential to truly lift the quality of all schools in the city like no other reform we’ve tried.
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February 25th, 2009 9:24 pm
Hopefully, Obama’s scaring parents away from traditional government schools the way he’s scaring folks away from many other things that obviously are socialist and far too costly. In time, bureaucrats and quasi-businessmen engaged in charter schools will turn to the compulsory corruption and the citizens will take the next step. It’s a bad idea for any government to educate its children.
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February 26th, 2009 5:27 am
At the DOE we overcrowd the public schools, hold back resources, and force these schools to accept and try to help every student no matter the skill or behavioral level until the people have no choice but tp ask for charter schools…Damn, this scheme is working like a charm!
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