As the State Legislature heard testimony last week on Governor Cuomo’s education proposals—including increasing the cap on charter schools and giving some of them $75 more per student—charter-school advocates and the New York State United Teachers battled each other with dueling statistics on state-funding priorities.
NYSUT released a Feb. 2 report indicating that charter schools were “flush” with cash. The schools’ defenders called the analysis misleading and released a counter-report showing that poor-performing city schools squandered their resources.
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