Proposed law would strip SUNY's authority to OK new charter schools...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "SUNY has done an excellent job in opening charter schools."
53% : Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said: "As the organization that sets policy for all schools, the state Department of Education should have the final authority on charter schools, particularly on standards that would increase the transparency and accountability of charter operations.
52% : The Democratic-controlled Legislature has refused to pass a law to lift the cap to open more charter schools in the city.
50% : There are currently 272 charter schools enrolling 145,000 students in New York City -- and a statewide cap of 460 -- with many of the alternative schools outperforming nearby traditional public schools and some among the top performers in the state.
47% : A key state lawmaker overseeing New York City schools has introduced legislation that would block the opening of new charter schools in the Empire State, advocates claim.
46% : Columbia Law School professor James Liebman, who has conducted research on charter schools, said, "This bill is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist."
46% : "I wanted to make sure there was an alternative to elected politicians beholden to the teachers' unions to authorize charter schools," Pataki, considered the father of the state's charter school movement, told The Post Monday.
40% : Liu, who chairs the Senate committee on New York City schools, defended the legislation as eliminating a "loophole" that made SUNY the only entity aside from the Board of Regents to approve charter schools.
37% : "Taking authority away from SUNY trustees would make it much harder for charter schools to open," the former three-term Republican governor said.
32% : The Regents said the joint proposal from Public Prep Charter School Academies and Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools' violated the cap and was illegal.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.