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David Paterson clashes with N.Y. lawmakers over charter schools
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ALBANY, N.Y. - New York’s Legislature is proposing last-minute changes to charter schools law that Governor David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned yesterday will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in a federal grant due tomorrow.
By proposing to raise the cap of available charters to 400, the Democrat-led Senate and Assembly are following the lead of the state’s powerful teachers’ union and other school lobbyists, which have long opposed charter schools as now operated.
The current cap is 200, with just six charters left.
Paterson has said that in order to qualify for up to $700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund, the state must eliminate its cap or raise it to no fewer than 454. Paterson says the US education secretary told him so.
Yesterday Paterson ordered a special session to negotiate changes today, which is a holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The application must be in Washington by 4 p.m. tomorrow to be considered in the Obama administration program aimed at improving public education.
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