Network for Public Education (NPE) Executive Director and former New York principal, Carol Burris, regularly writes for Valerie Strauss’ “Answer Sheet” column of the Washington Post. On March 17, 2016, Strauss featured this article by Burris entitled, “What Can Happen When a Neighborhood School is Forced to Share Its Space with a Charter.” I have reproduced Burris’ piece in full at the end of this post because Strauss, who introduces the article, is correct in her assertion that most of America has no idea about the now-common New York practice of charter co-location, or of a traditional public school being required to share its facilities with a charter that has scoped out that school and targeted it for its “underutilized space.” In reality, what is often termed as “underutilized” by some distant authority able to force the current school into a situation of awkward functioning (dys-functioning?) is space that…
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