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This article is mainly about characteristics specific to those charter schools that are in New York State.

Governing state law

State laws govern the establishing and supervision of charter schools. The New York Charter Schools Act of 1998, as amended, is codified as Education Law, §§ 2850–2857. Regulations appear in New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR).

Any locality that has authorization to establish charter schools may have local law governing the process.

Schools list

A list is available from the Charter Schools Institute.

For schools in Misplaced Pages, see the page Category:Charter_schools_in_New_York.

Criticism

CEO compensation

Some chief executive officers of charter schools have been criticized for accepting pay that is substantially more than that of the New York City Schools Chancellor or the former State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor for running many more schools or colleges, respectively, with many more students. The New York City Chancellor shared management and support with approximately 62,000 nonteaching personnel in Fiscal Year 2009–2010. SUNY's Chancellor shared responsibility with 87,362 employees, including 54,162 non-faculty and 283 in system administration (estimates), as of Nov., 2009.

Union representation

Most charter schools in the state do not offer union representation of teachers.

References

  1. N.Y. Consolidated Laws Service (LexisNexis, hardbound) (including pocket part for use in 2010) (CLS) (Educ L). A similar collection of statutes is published under the short name McKinney's Laws of New York Consolidated. The former set carries a certificate that it may be read into evidence in court; the latter probably also qualifies. Another set, which has no such certificate apparent but is online and free, is at http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS (click "EDN", then "Article 56"), as accessed Mar. 24, 2010.
  2. These sections are also known collectively as Education Law, Article 56.
  3. As accessed Mar. 24, 2010.
  4. Charter School Executives Earning Big Bucks Education
  5. Former City Council Member Eva Moskowitz Makin' a Bundle at Nonprofit Schools, by Juan Gonzalez, Feb. 27, 2009, as accessed Feb. 28, 2010.
  6. Preliminary Mayor's Management Report (N.Y.: N.Y.C. Feb., 2010) (also titled The Mayor's Management Report: Preliminary Fiscal 2010), portion for Dep't of Educ., pp. 15 & 20, as accessed Mar. 10, 2010 (138,822 personnel (p. 20) minus "approximately 77,000 teachers" (p. 15)) (also as full report, as accessed Mar. 24, 2010).
  7. SUNY Fast Facts 2009, as accessed Mar. 9, 2010.
  8. Charter School Chief Keeps a Hand in Politics, by Elissa Gootman N.Y. Times, Nov. 3 or 4, 2008, as accessed Jan. 10, 2010.
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