By Nina Rees, President of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
As schools start to open across the nation, the back-to-school test in New York City will be taken in November, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s departure opens the door to changes in the robust reform package he has implemented during his 12-year reign there. No city has been at the center of the public education reform discussion more than New York.
Though the soon-to-be-former mayor has implemented a number of popular initiatives like CitiBike, his favorite, education reform, has been the hardest sell. A recent Zogby poll, commissioned by the Manhattan Institute, found only 28 percent of city residents rate the city’s schools “excellent” or “good.” And the recent results on the Common Core assessments backed up these feelings.
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