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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is more coverage - including Eva Moskowitz making a child's disciplinary records public http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/29/harlem_success_academy_got_to_go_list_named_undesirable_students.html

If Eva Moskowitz thinks the public policy solution to poor inner city schools is a combination of strict discipline and taking the bottom 5% of kids with behavior problems and segregating them in other separate schools, I wish she would just be honest about it. Instead she spouts platitudes about her schools dealing with same populations as public schools but getting better results - at the same time she is trying to push the weakest kids out. Also, does NY not have the same rules regarding special ed?  I did not think that charters could use the need for special ed as a reason to say a kid wasn't a good fit for a school. I thought charters had to meet the student's special ed needs.[/quote]

I am a NYC public school teacher. I don't know all the rules about charters and special education, but I do know I've read about ones that claim they can't offer the proper services for some needs.

I have followed Success for years and probably read all the press there is on them. They make my blood boil. I see how they're good for a certain type of child, but the comparisons with public school are unequal and unfair. They move into schools, take over areas and try to demand that, for example, staff and students of the public school no longer use an entrance that had been theirs before.

Their space looks different. Due to all their donor money, kids in one hallway may have dilapidated classrooms and on the success side, they're all new; brand new paint and many more resources. It is just not right. Not even getting into Moskowitzs salary. [/quote]

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