WaPo: New York City charters leave thousands of seats unfilled despite...
New York City’s charter schools are leaving thousands of seats unfilled each year despite ballooning demand and long waiting lists, according to an analysis of public data to be released Friday. The...
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Keeping Precious Charter-School Seats Filled
Too many of the schools don’t ‘backfill’ with new students to replace those who move away. The public charter-school application season in New York and around the country has begun. For the next few...
View ArticleNYPost: Advocates urge charter schools to accept students mid-year
Fill ’em up! Advocates are urging the city’s large charter school networks to take more students from wait lists and fill empty seats during the school year as they released a report showing 2,500...
View ArticlePolitico: Challenging Success Academy, charter group and Council raise...
The school choice advocacy group Democracy Builders and the New York City Council are highlighting the issue of “backfill,” or refilling vacated charter school seats with new students—a longtime source...
View ArticleEdWeek: Will ‘Backfilling’ Become the Next Big Charter Schools Debate?
A parent and school-choice advocacy organization in New York City is calling on the city’s charter schools to fill thousands of empty seats in 3rd through 8th grades. Backfilling, or replacing students...
View ArticleObserver: Charter Group Claims Schools Not Filling Vacated Seats
The Democracy Builders, which bills itself as a pro-parents organization, said it had used testing statistics from the city Department of Education website to show that 2,500 students had dropped out...
View ArticleWNYC: Despite Demand, Charters Keep Seats Empty
Despite increased interest in charters, and the selective, nail-biting application process, public records indicate that thousands of seats in New York charter schools go unfilled. Eliza Shapiro,...
View ArticleWaPo: Charters grapple with admission policies, question how public they...
With 8,500 students on waiting lists for public charter schools in the District last spring, an increase of 18 percent from the previous year, many wonder whether it makes sense to limit the number of...
View ArticleOur ‘Got to Go’ list: Two parents take aim at the New York City public school...
We’re parents of young kids, so you can imagine our initial outrage when we read about the Success Academy principal who kept a “Got to Go” list of difficult students. But now that we’ve heard the full...
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