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ANNIE KARNI
An pro-charter school group has spent $3.6 million on TV ads over the past three weeks attacking Mayor de Blasio — the amount candidates typically spend in three weeks of a heated mayoral primary, an insider with knowledge of the ad buy revealed Wednesday.
Families for Excellent Schools — founded by a deep-pocketed group of current and former financiers — has run a series of ads, including a heart-wrenching spot blaming de Blasio for taking away the “hopes and dreams” of 194 students by blocking Success Academy Harlem Central’s co-location plan.
De Blasio earlier this month blocked three Success charter schools from co-locations in public school buildings while allowing five others to go ahead.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/charter-group-pays-3-6m-tv-ads-ripping-de-blasio-article-1.1727587#ixzz2wXCsi6z8
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Charter Schools.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)
nykym
(3,063 posts)3.6 mil on renovating a space for yourself?
hrmjustin
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EC
(12,287 posts)came from the vouchers that paid for the tuition at the charter schools that paid the salary of the deep-pocketed group?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Maybe at their nexr education committee meeting the council can grill these people about this.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)is backed by this group. They are supported by Wall Street, the Walmart family, and the organization has refused to say who donates to it.
Families for Excellent Schools formed in 2011. Four of its five founding board members are Wall Street players, including Paul Appelbaum, an investor who is the principal at Rock Ventures LLC, and Bryan Lawrence, who runs an investment firm and has years experience with charters. Two of the board members did donate to De Blasio's campaign committee.
Financial sector leaders have long been some of the biggest supporters of the charter-school movement. That’s a fact that has been red meat for charter school opponents.
“They crashed our economy. They crashed New York City. We were at a standstill for a very long time economically here. And now we’re going to trust them with our students? That seems preposterous for me,” said Natasha Capers, a parent leader at the Alliance for Quality Education.
The Alliance—a teachers-union backed nonprofit that supports traditional public schools—attacked the pro-charter ads shortly after they started airing. Capers said she wanted to know why the charter schools need free space from the city if the movement has so many wealthy backers.
The Walton Family Foundation, of Walmart fame, has given more than $700,000 over the past two years. That foundation recently hired a deputy schools chancellor from the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Families for Excellent Schools shares an address with the New York arm of StudentsFirst, a national education reform nonprofit led by Michelle Rhee, the former Washington D.C. schools chancellor.
Kittredge declined to discuss his organization’s funding.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/behind-pro-charter-school-group-fighting-de-blasio/
The Bill Gates foundation donates to this group, which is not a legit group. Go to this website and click on the Families for Excellent Schools and read. http://greatschoolsforamerica.org/donors.php?donor_id=000006
The only thing to blame for American students doing poorly, is American society. American society. Not, teachers, not curriculum, not testing or lack of it, but American society. American society is shattered.
