Steve's Barking, Bad schooling, a New York thing.

A charter school lobby group payed three and a half million in adds so that charter schools shouldn't have to pay rent. If that group had put that money up for rent they probably would have paid the rent for all the charter schools next year.
Charter schools' in the city on the whole do no better then public schools in comprehensive testing even though there is one charter group of schools that do the best in the State, so you can imagine what most charter schools do.
In Albany several weeks back there was a rally for charter schools, were three thousand people were in attendance, what isn't well known about this rally that several groups that were in attendance like The Civil Service Employees Association came to Albany to lobby their legislators, but when they got off their buses they were handed tee shirts that said save our charter schools. Many of these people were led to to the rally before they went lobbing making the rally larger then it should have been.
I have yet to see a study on what happens to charter school students when they go into the real world of college and work, unless this study is done one has knowledge if charter schools are effective or not.,
Many of the New York City public schools lack laboratories. We Lack the math teachers who can teach the subject. Science teachers we have to import from other countries, and many of our students have a hard time understanding them.