Thursday, May 21, 2015
NY Rejects All Applications for New Charter Schools
“We always look for quality and these applications didn’t measure up,” Education Department spokesman Dennis Tompkins said Wednesday. “We invited several of the applicants to reapply in June and we gave them suggestions on how to improve their applications.”
But charter-school advocates weren’t buying it, saying the rejection of all the applicants reeked of pro-teacher-union politics....