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Article: Five forgotten schools.(movement against charter schools in New York City)
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- Reason
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- December 1, 2003
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The increasing demand for charter schools, and the educational options they provide, has been elevated by the belief that urban schools need dramatic improvement. But why hasn't this push produced more results? The story of five forgotten schools serves as one example of the hypocrisy of some school reform--opponents of major change claiming they want to improve schools but being satisfied with merely blocking change.
In December 2000, at the prodding of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the New York City Board of Education made national headlines by initiating a bold reform to improve five of its most chronically poor-performing schools. The schools were to be ...