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<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rdKNszELCL0VU3C4tof2KHjVpJycrCBdaEF-FuejV6l2 idHxCYKHp_yjSdCRFNUJ1XL_vNrqSDLIYoLpky1RbnC5dMNayFC_RkPuTvUojiUNpOIRr8rB01SM SUV0Q_lbFPl25VvENwfYOikbBwLZqYbgiaqJ-Qt8REPZM75kkLuTedte7m0rTQ==&c=y07OocNC0 koMp-a9Gt6_PsvGZlCCr7UCbH-uWle67X0iPtc1YHvc3Q==&ch=PCsSsOE0YOLyJC5FfDzh8V9Sa wJUD1zdcAOwWGr_IusYNsVDCH_ZFQ==> March 10, 2014 Nixing Success Newly elected New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made waves, recently. He nixed <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rdKNszELCL0VU3C4tof2KHjVpJycrCBdaEF-FuejV6l2 idHxCYKHpzyLmdkb5A81Cy_xgfbyjZd3cu4tx_4X3L1Fs1z6-9m3DXb8USPc6bSpyUrOldyYDRno 5dH_y_8rtixpKTJUtwoc9S-HbcpVWQCBi5I3flmxTgUzksitsByePYbN5q5o9GVhMeiZccl2QTxX JQ3BTmg0nLQbeot-nz38CG8NhGJM_zt4DfPfParJBco9H5qHq-EcnLnRtMNnG7bHTTgSqla2IuQD PAV9mHPfDYy6KZjZ&c=y07OocNC0koMp-a9Gt6_PsvGZlCCr7UCbH-uWle67X0iPtc1YHvc3Q==& ch=PCsSsOE0YOLyJC5FfDzh8V9SawJUD1zdcAOwWGr_IusYNsVDCH_ZFQ==> the establishment of two new charter schools and halted the expansion of another. Widespread protest followed, with over ten thousand people showing up to express their frustration and ire. The charter chain under de Blasio attack, Success Academy, has been very successful increasing student test scores, and can boast a waiting list of five applicants for every school opening <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rdKNszELCL0VU3C4tof2KHjVpJycrCBdaEF-FuejV6l2 idHxCYKHpzyLmdkb5A81QaMbJGEhz0p4_JCbcQYOujVWgs_SxNHtcqwWVynxfbeyGWR49lx8E_Q1 3YnO6kDW8_LIzDEPQ81rUajbvbcbbRmaCRoXcCvkiONBh2vC4ZKOZlwbOiWSPb3aKYeIJKWhqIO2 EUQN79tMIIMe43VDde-Sg4IHJCf8&c=y07OocNC0koMp-a9Gt6_PsvGZlCCr7UCbH-uWle67X0iP tc1YHvc3Q==&ch=PCsSsOE0YOLyJC5FfDzh8V9SawJUD1zdcAOwWGr_IusYNsVDCH_ZFQ==> . <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/BilldeBlasio-color-sepiabckg.png> So why would the mayor be against them? What would make him so against this non-radical form of education reform? Well, de Blasio received the overwhelming support of teachers' unions during his campaign for office. Teachers' unions are no fans of charter schools, which gain some of their advantages by not being hampered by union contracts. Sure, the mayor's heavy-handed slap at charter schools may simply be a political payoff to the teachers' unions, but couldn't there be something more to it? Last May he directed his metaphorical guns at the head of the Success Academy, former New York councilwoman Eva Mosokowitz <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rdKNszELCL0VU3C4tof2KHjVpJycrCBdaEF-FuejV6l2 idHxCYKHpzyLmdkb5A81NqfpTX48cvUHVdyi3TMMFfQOlstkXY83xiNzvfIfhN-YxbMc3pVRcT3b sQTSatjfvudRUJaxswLp7hNZxetf4ZtWgYwC1snUfWCsRilfTR48GRPdw5aZGVmCRYqHMdAfb9at eGmSgP-hQk4e2WSCCbjy6NJ6sDanMsT4ai5o-6gXA4CwB_2I9g7TZKXmthAd&c=y07OocNC0koMp -a9Gt6_PsvGZlCCr7UCbH-uWle67X0iPtc1YHvc3Q==&ch=PCsSsOE0YOLyJC5FfDzh8V9SawJUD 1zdcAOwWGr_IusYNsVDCH_ZFQ==> . "It's time for Eva Moskowitz to stop having the run of the place," he promised the United Federation of Teachers at a mayoral candidates forum. "She has to stop being tolerated, enabled, supported." Knee-capping the less politically muscular charter school folks to please the immensely powerful public education unions is indeed classic patronage politics. But maybe de Blasio's personal animus also shows his true colors, his commitment to undercut any successful competition to the governmental way of doing things. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. 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