Dean Skelos: Taking Credit Where it is Not Due

By Mike Connery on 06/01/2010 @ 11:26 AM

Tags: Education, Dean Skelos, SD-9

News LI reports that Republican Minority Conference Leader Dean Skelos is trying to take credit for the charter school reform measures passed last week. The reform measures more than doubled the amount of charters schools allowed in New York, positioning the state for a better showing in the next round of Race to the Top grants, which could bring $700million in much needed aid to New York's schools.

There's only one small problem - Skelos and the Republicans had nothing to do with its passage. The measure was unanimously supported by Democrats, providing the necessary votes for passage. What's more, the reforms were opposed by half of Skelos's caucus, because of limits placed on the ability of for-profit corporations to exploit our children's education just to make a buck.

Not only was Dean Skelos not responsible for helping to pass this legislation, he couldn't even bring his own conference to the table to pass truly bipartisan reform on behalf of New York's schoolchildren.

Comments

Leave a Comment

Email*

First Name*

Last Name

Title

Comment*

?

You Type	You See
*italics*	italics
**bold**	bold
[ask google](http://google.com)	ask google
+ item 1 + item 2 + item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> a really cool quote from a nice person	a really cool quote from a nice person

Comment

* Required information

Comment Preview