Vincent Morgan Supports Educational Options: Assails Limiting Charter Schools in NY-15
NEW YORK, NY (April 22, 2010) — I believe the children of NY15 need all the resources we can muster to ensure a solid education that prepares them for a meaningful future. That means improving public education as well as supporting charter schools, private and parochial institutions.
The majority of students in NY15 attend public schools. With the largest public school system in the world, more than 1.1 million New York students are taught in more than 1,500 public schools.
In attending these schools, they have an absolute right to the best quality teachers, materials and basic education. That means we need more investment in public schools. We need to invest in raising the standards of public education, employing and rewarding good teachers and providing adequate learning materials and experiences. We need to build new schools to meet the growing demand in some of the most overcrowded schools in districts like 3 and 5. Most of all, we need to change the perception that a public education is an inadequate education by making good education a reality in our public schools.
On the other side of the coin, parents should never be denied the right to choose which educational experience is most appropriate for their children. And, charter schools are, in my opinion, a good option.
With 21% of the children in NY15 attending charters, it has become increasingly obvious that they are making a positive impact. Charters boast a dramatically higher success rate on performance tests required by the State of New York. They have become so popular that there are waiting lists and lotteries to fill the seats.
Bashing charters with name calling and finger-pointing — which some people have been doing — misses the point. Charters provide a much needed boost to the educational needs of the children in our district. The notion that these schools are hurting our community or stealing resources is preposterous and misguided. Best practices should be shared and utilized by all. As such, the techniques and curriculum being implemented at charters should serve as a model for other schools.
Charters are not, and never were intended to be, a replacement for our city’s public schools. In recognizing that there is an undisputed performance gap between charters and public schools, our focus should be on providing our kids with more options not less. Let’s make the public school system a more compelling choice for our kids. And, let’s keep charter schools and parochial schools solvent.
For the record, I need to state that, in my lifetime, I have attended alternative independent schools, parochial schools and public schools. Further, I have two small children on whose behalf I will soon have to choose an educational option. I would love for my children to attend a quality public school. But until that becomes a reality, I want to know that I have a choice because what I decide will have a profound impact on their future ability to earn a decent income and enjoy a meaningful life. I would ask nothing less for all parents in NY15.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Mr. Morgan, I have heard positive opinions of your campaign, but it is sad to see you falling into the Charter School delusional trap. There are serious problems with your sentence about charter opposition, beyond the fact that it makes no grammatical sense (telling for a piece on education). “Rather than bashing charters with name calling and finger-pointing — which some people have been doing — misses the point.” The bashing of Charters relates to facts, facts that the “positive impact” statistics are based on these schools that can selectively pick students, and move out the failing students, and bypass DOE financial restrictions and bypass union best teacher practices. The true public schools cannot (and should not) do any of these. And the only reason “Charters…never were intended to be a replacement for our city’s public schools” is because the poorest performing students need those public schools to be shoved into. The e-mails between Klein and Moskowitz are the tip of the iceberg on the preference the big business of charter schools receive and the illegitimacy of expanding these at the cost of those who do not win the “lotteries” that impress you.
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Mr. Fenton mentions, and then swats at, the reality that Harlem’s charter schools, by and large, are operating on a lottery admission policy. They are not skimmimg The cream. It is true that the parents must apply for the kids so there is some degree of selecting the most motivated candidates–most motivated parents that is.
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