By Anika Anand
(From Gotham Schools, July 9, 2013)
Some Democratic mayoral candidates are calling for a moratorium on charter school co-locations and at least one, Comptroller John Liu, has said he would require charter schools to pay rent. But charter school advocates say they remain not too concerned.
“We should be worried … [but] I don’t think we should be panicked,” said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center, this morning at a panel discussion about the future of education in New York City hosted by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right-wing think tank.
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