Spitzer's School Choice

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I sure like what I'm hearing about Spitzer's thoughts on reforming New York's horribly broken public education system.  The proof will be in the pudding, of course.

A few early signs, however, suggest that Eliot Spitzer, if elected, may break this partisan mold.

Over the past year, Mr. Spitzer has been speaking much more boldly about education reform than any other major figure in his party. Mr. Spitzer favors raising the existing cap on the number of charter schools (currently frozen at 100), supports an education tax credit to help defray expenditures for tuition and other education-related expenses, and has talked about linking a settlement of the Court of Appeals decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case with reforms that change how education is delivered in the state. (In Mr. Spitzer's words: "If we don't pair the resolution of this litigation with an effort to change the delivery system, then we will have missed an opportunity.")

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Spitzer's School Choice

BY THOMAS CARROLL
November 1, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/42630

In New York State, school choice and other educational reform issues have been more closely identified with top state Republicans than with Democrats. One prominent example was the adoption of the state's charter school law, which was rammed through by Republican Governor Pataki over widespread Democratic opposition in December 1998.