Bloomberg introduces record number of Charter Schools

For any other Mayor it'd be a major initiative, but for New York's Mike Bloomberg it's just business as usual. Bloomberg has announced plans to launch 18 new charter schools this year, the most ever to be introduced in the city in a single year.

To describe it as "business as usual" is to get at precisely the type of thinking Bloomberg has applied throughout his reign. In this case, his thinking is that by introducing additional schools it will create the competition necessary to spark fundamental education change throughout New York. More below:

“It is the charter schools that will get the public to demand that the rest of them come up,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “It’s the charter schools that let parents vote with their feet and tell us what the parents think about the quality of the education, of the schools. And I can tell you, one of the reasons that the public schools in the city have gotten better is because the charter schools exist and give parents an alternative and let parents see that you can do something better.”

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