anti-charter forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pali-high-student-returns-original-119810165.jpg\")
Under the charter-school law passed in 1998, both SUNY and the state Board of Regents have separate authority to issue new charters. Carlin Stiehl for California Post<\/p>\n
Progressives in the Legislature have been calling to sideline the SUNY board for a while now; they might get Gov. Kathy Hochul to go along as she guards her left flank in her re-election year.<\/p>\n
The SUNY authorizers are no band of right-wing loons; they\u2019re academic professionals grounded in empirical support for effective educational approaches; it\u2019s the Regents who are dominated by ideological hacks.<\/p>\n
For a clear sign of what that means, just look at the difference in outcomes among New York City schools granted charters by SUNY vs. those OK\u2019d by the Regents.<\/p>\n
On state proficiency exams for English and math these last two years, students at 197 SUNY-sponsored charters have had much higher pass rates than the kids at 74 Regents-authorized schools.<\/p>\n
In English, it\u2019s 62% passing vs. 47%; in math, 67% vs. 48%.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s gaps of 15 and 19 points in the SUNY-OK\u2019d schools favor \u2014 a clear sign that if anyone should be sidelined, it\u2019s the Regents.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re not calling for that; from the start, charters have been about allowing the pursuit of different approaches, and it\u2019s certainly conceivable that this trend could reverse in the decades ahead.<\/p>\n
The central point to keep in mind is that anyone pushing to end SUNY\u2019s role in authorizing charter schools doesn\u2019t have the kids\u2019 best interests in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As New York\u2019s charter schools continue to deliver far better results for their students than traditional public schools,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":578910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,161225,18728,4691,407,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,5300,145730,38036,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-578909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-board-of-regents","tag-charter-schools","tag-editorial","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-standardized-testing","tag-suny","tag-teachers-union","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116044207774144022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}