Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Says Charter Schools Are Not The Only Ones That Need Help
BY GLENN BLAIN
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pushed back Wednesday against efforts to boost funding for charter schools.
While not ruling out more money for charters, Silver said any effort to aid them must be weighed against other pressing needs in the city, including a space crunch that has kept school children in temporary classroom trailers for years.
“When you want to talk about school construction, there are children who are sitting in trailers for years because we don’t have the physical facilities to put them into buildings,” Silver (D-Manhattan) said at a press conference Wednesday morning.
“And if we want to talk about construction crisis, we should talk about those children first. They’ve been there," Silver continued. "They are not part of new proposals. They are not part of experiments. They are assigned to those trailers and many of them have been there for years. So that’s something, if we want to spend money on construction.”
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