New York City charter schools are giving taxpayers more bang for their buck, routinely outperforming traditional public schools — and doing it at less than half the cost per student, data show.
and the revival of some “zombie’’ licenses of those closed. This week, The Post reveals the success city charter schools have had by examining data and talking with those most closely involved in the system. To oppose more charters is simply racist, say some supporters, including former Gov. Pataki.more bang for their buck, routinely outperforming traditional public schools — and doing it at less than half the cost per student, data show.
Belluck said he didn’t expect the stiff opposition to Hochul’s plan, given the broad support by the most important constituency in education: parents. Amina Mamah-Trawill, the mother of a 6-year-old student at t Success Academy Bronx 2, said she has to get extra tutoring for her child in public school.She said her family is living proof of what they can do, noting that while her little boy is thriving, an older son in public school is not doing so well.“But with the charter school, I see they help a lot. … [The younger son], he reads, they pushed him from kindergarten. … He knows his words, he knows his math.
Charter students outperformed their public-school peers in English Language Arts proficiency by 55% to 49% and math proficiency by 46% to 38% in 2021-22, according to data compiled by NYC Charter Center.Black charter-school students bested their public-school counterparts in ELA by proficiency rates of 55% to 36% and in math by 46% to 21%.
“They learn better here. When my daughter was in public school, she could not read, she could not do her homework by herself,” Diallo said. “These teachers — they care more for sure — and I love them. If my daughter is sick and I take her to the hospital, she wants to come back to school.SO YOU WANT TO START A CHARTER
The schools, founded by not-for-profit Boards of Trustees, operate under a contract, or “charter,” of up to five years, with them subject to having their licenses revoked by state officials if the school underperforms. The survey was released days before Hochul’s budget proposal to make 85 more new slots available for charter schools.Djiba Camara, a 57-year-old Uber driver whose children Mariame, 6, and Ismail, 10, attend Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School, cheered the plan to add charters.
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