And here's part 2 – it takes a lot of chutzpah to blame charter supporters from killing NY's chances to win RttT money:

Representatives of the New York Charter School Association have been lobbying against New York State receiving Race to the Top funds, elected officials in Albany and Washington DC have told the UFT. If successful, these efforts would deny funds for important educational reforms to both district and charter schools in New York — at a time when all of these schools are facing draconian cuts in funding.

But NYCSA — and the allied New York City Charter School Center — are once again placing their ideological agenda above the interests of the schools they claim to represent.

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We Were Born – It Just Wasn't Yesterday:
How NYCSA Places Ideology Before the Interests of Charter Schools

Dec. 17, 2009
1:58 pm
by Leo Casey
www.edwize.org/we-were-born-–-it-just-wasn't-yesterday-how-nycsa-places-ideology-before-the-interests-of-charter-schools