From now on, she will apply four criteria in reviewing proposed co-locations. She won\u2019t put elementary and high schools in the same building. She won\u2019t keep approving small schools that only require more high-paid supervisors to run them. She won\u2019t approve co-locations that require expensive renovations of school properties.<\/span>
<\/span>And, most importantly, she won\u2019t allow reduced services or seats for special education students.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cThese are the most vulnerable and highest needs kids in our system,\u201d Fari\u00f1a said, but \u201cthey were the first kids to lose space or be moved\u201d under the prior administration.<\/span>
<\/span>No one is happier about her policy change than the parents and staff at the Mickey Mantle school, a program for autistic and emotionally disturbed children that was slated to lose space and seats to the proposed expansion of Success Academy.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cOur school already lost a music, a theater arts and an art room the past few years,\u201d said Barry Daub, principal at Mickey Mantle. Those losses happened to make room for Harlem Success 1, launched in the same building in 2006.<\/span>
<\/span>Mickey Mantle would have lost enrollment and even more space if Fari\u00f1a had approved the Success Academy expansion.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cWe would be doing physical and occupational therapy in the halls,\u201d Daub said.<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n
Charter advocates don’t care.<\/p>\n
More often than not, they do not serve the disabled community. They lack the resources to do so, and they have absolutely no interests in developing those capabilities.<\/p>\n
They just want to make sure that the senior executives, and their Wall Street backers stay on the gravy train. (Moscowitz, who has fewer than 7000 students in her schools, is paid more than the New York City Schools Chancellor, who manages more than a million students)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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