Comments on: Other schools without space where city gave Moskowitz a home

By: In Case You Missed It: Poorer Districts Could Get More Money; Success Network Gets Its Cobble Hill School; Just 1-in-3 NYers Think Walcott Gets It, Period « EdVox

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:31:59 +0000

[...] The Success Network proposal seemed to jump the queue ahead of two other private proposals for District 15, which have not been offered space by DOE: http://gothamschools.org/2011/12/14/other-schools-without-space-where-city-gave-moskowitz-a-home/ [...]

By: bee

bee — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:26:00 +0000

I second the motion! I liken Eva’s education chain stores to parasites that feed off their hosts (public school communities, and tax payers) and ultimately destroy them and everything else in their wake. I’m glad that our elected representatives in district 15 have spoken out against this cobble hill site takeover. Co-locations, throughout NYC, are a serious issue that need to be addressed immediately. Co-locations are punitive to public school communities. If charters want to continue to be free agents, to be “independent”, “compete in the marketplace,” and not really have to answer to the dictates of public school governance or communities, then WHY DON’T THEY RENT/BUY THEIR OWN DARN BUILDINGS? Yes, that was a rhetorical question, so I’ll answer it. Charter schools are unproven, and unsustainable.

By: Diversified in D13

Diversified in D13 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:23:00 +0000

Are the parents the founders of the school you are referring to? Otherwise I don’t see why another appropriate community can’t be found. And, of course, there is precedent for schools being located in one district, but serving several. Before this year, Arts & Letters, the best MS option in needy D13, allowed kids from D15 in.

By: FedUp

FedUp — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:15:00 +0000

I am begging some major news outlet to pair up with GothamSchools and the Brooklyn papers that have covered this situation well to finally do an expose of Success…of its preferential treatment from day one, of its bogus claim to prioritize serve ‘at risk’ kids, of the awful/rigged/opaque way they get their new chartersfrom SUNY before they even have a school location, of the free ride they are getting in NYC, of their marketing blitz and they way they have systematiccaly denigrated and squeezed our neighborhood schools, of their manipulation of the system and of the city’s reasons to play along with Eva’s game. Come on, journalists – DIG DEEP!! Actually, you don’t have to go too deep…just really wide.

By: Harringtonian

Harringtonian — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:05:00 +0000

Frankly, It is very painful that D15 might lose a Charter School its
parents demonstrably want in order that Eva could be appeased. THIS is accountability

By: KatieBklynTeacher

KatieBklynTeacher — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:13:00 +0000

Do any charters like this exist? Not a rhetorical question…

By: KAlday

KAlday — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:58:00 +0000

And what ramifications were those? Have you visited one of the Success Academies? Have you seen with your own eyes what they do for the children of this city? While I agree Ms Moskowitz does push for what she wants, ANY one who has a passion and the drive will push for it. Many of us charter parents are just as passionate, we will scream from the top of mountains to help people know what these opportunities have done for our children. The issue is that Eva has a bad name thru the media and because she uses her contacts to get what is needed for her schools. Welcome to the real world – that is why networking is so important. Now some would say that her receiving space is ‘squeezing’ out the students in the co-located schools – I call serious foul on that. Visit any of the SCN schools and see for yourself. At Success Academy Bronx 1, we don’t use the library, we are rarely in the gym and we have the latest possible lunch period – as a matter of fact our kids finish lunch less than an hour before the district school (PS 30) leave for the day. The issue in this whole thing is that so many are fast to jump on the bandwagon of what everyone else is saying or from comments they read or anti-charter ( and a lot of anti-Eva) blogs… go get the real facts, go to the sources. Every charter parent I have spoken to is all for getting rid of mayorial control, a full over haul of the DOE and better teachers, more money etc for ALL of the public schools – district and charter a like – the thing with the charter parents is that we didn’t want to wait for it to finally happen, we wanted choice and change for our children now.

By: KitchenSink

KitchenSink — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:41:00 +0000

It’s probably more objective to say ”standalone.” But don’t think, JTF, that many charters are founded by teachers who have left the system and don’t have any institutional or organizational backing. It’s the Al Shanker vision for charters and it’s written into the law as one course of action.

By: nat

nat — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:48:00 +0000

Another attack on public schools by the haves. The idea that Eva has already assured parents in cobble hill access to her lottery just demonstrates that her tactics are criminal and should be labeled as such. What about those improvised kids in failing schools in district 13 and 14 who she assurred to the state she was going to serve. How quickly she is allowed to turn a blind eye to those brown and black faces and openly award spaces while meeting in million dollar condos…

By: michael

michael — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:35:00 +0000

All this at the expense of taxpayers.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:07:00 +0000

Thank you for posting this video.

I don’t think the signature collectors had all the facts. Neither to many of the alleged supporters. I was able to turn one couple I know against the charter by explaining the ramifications.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:21:00 +0000

i hope that all kinds of bugs infest both schools especially Eva’s.

By: Just the Facts

Just the Facts — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:14:00 +0000

“Mom and Pop Charter school?” Give me a break. Opening up a charter school is not the same as opening up a candy store. Sorry Gothamschools, but this piece is going to seem a tad too pro-charter for many folks. (Especially on the same day that you announced a desire to solicit cash contributions to keep the site going in the future.) I would love to see a return to objective reporting on this site and keep the pro or anti charter slants to the numerous blogs that are already out there.

By: DM

DM — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:14:00 +0000

Where were the 4000 Cobble Hill Residents on the day of the public hearing? Why didn’t they come out to support the school?
I live in Cobble Hill and I can tell you why. They don’t care. Moskowitz pays people to stand around the Cobble Hill and Williamsburg neighborhoods to collect signatures supporting great public schools. They say almost nothing else. I have listened and watched these conversations take place in my neighborhood. Moskowitz is paying employees to collect these signatures and they are less than honest in the way they go about it. I am stopping short of saying lying, but I think that word is appropriate.

You should watch this video if you want to see what real Cobble Hill Parents who know what is going on think about Eva Moskowitz and her Charter Network.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Xeelvfbm0&list=UUh8pphdD7ocfQ7sED6OBL3g&feature=plcp

By: Hopeful in D13

Hopeful in D13 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:55:00 +0000

I am sure D13 would welcome BUGS with open arms. We are starving for good MS options!