Despite a state budget that includes $405 million more in school funding than last year, charter schools aren't slated to get an extra dime in state aid come July, critics charge. Advocates yesterday said a provision that freezes the next fiscal year's charter funds at this year's levels would slice as much as $30 million from city charters -- akin to an 8.5 percent cut.
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Obama's shameful silence
President Obama's huge stimulus bill includes about $100 billion for education. And he insists his criteria for supporting reforms is not ''whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works.'' Applauding, Randi Weingarten, powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers (1.4 million members), calls Mr. Obama the ''education president.''
However, when congressional Democrats recently doomed the Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor children in the District, the 'education president' didn't say a word...
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