Charter Schools Win a Huge Victory

In Manhattan, a recent development regarding the nationwide

battle for charter schools as a choice for parents who want 

their children to receive better educations than they would 

in the usual public schools occurred.

A Manhattan judge rejected a last-minute attempt by the 

United Federation of Teachers to obtain a court-ordered

block to prevent two Success Academy schools from

opening as planned. The union was challenging the city's

decision to grant Success Academy space for its schools

on grounds the approval did not take into account a new 

law requiring that public schools reduce class sizes.

In June the charters were placed under a temporary 

restraining order limiting repairs they could do to their 

allocated spaces to ready them for the coming school

year. 

The UFT's filing came rather late, mere days before 

the schools' opening, claiming the "myriad harms and

safety concerns" made by building improvements 

Success was already carrying out had become "urgent."  

Gee, how "urgent" was the need to act upon taking steps

to ensure the safety of the both the students and teachers

in the already existing public schools in New York?

What, pray, has been done to cut down on violent behavior

and general thuggery? By the by, one can also make this 

inquiry about the public schools in other U.S. cities, 

also certainly in my nearest big city of Milwaukee,

and the answer to these questions would be the same.

Judge Lyle Frank deserves to be commended for his wise

rulings, slamming the door on this effort by the UFT.

Judge Frank stopped the latest example of the never-ending

harassment the teachers unions toss at whatever might,

just might make some pesky competition for the unions' 

inept, corrupt, failing schools. The war is far from over but

a key battle was won.

As of this writing the NYC Department of Education reported

that the 2022 K-12 enrollment in regular public schools was

906,977 --- down almost 10% from 2019-2020. During this 

same time period charter schools increased to 141,091 

students from 129,523, much to the consternation of, along with

the grinding and gnashing of teachers union teeth.

Success Academy is one of the best charter school networks 

in the country. It offers better options for children who are 

languishing in the traditional public schools. And the more 

that the teachers unions drag them into court the more that they

are demonstrating two things: their fight for the substandard 

status quo in education in their wretched schools for children 

from kindergarten up to and including 12th grade, and their 

contempt, disdain, and unbridled arrogance toward these 

students, their parents, and the taxpayers.

MEM