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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (746788)10/15/2013 11:45:56 AM
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Lhota likes charter schools to give parents a choice. Blasio, a typical liberal Democrat, hates them. 70K mostly minority kids in NYC are going to charter schools and Democrats fear them getting decent educations.

... Lhota favors closing failing schools and relocating charter schools to traditional public school buildings at no cost.
"The future of education begins with the charter school movement," Lhota said at the summit. "It is the single most progressive thing going on in public education today."

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"The majority of children in charter schools are from that other city that Bill de Blasio likes to tell tales about, yet their voices fall on deaf ears -- his deaf ears in particular," Lhota earlier told a business group, referring to his opponent's "Tale of Two Cities" campaign platform.

About 70,000 of the city's 1.1 million public school students attend 183 charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately run. The state mandate allows as many as 66 more charter schools to open in the city.

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