NYC KidsPAC: November 5, 2018

Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee have outstanding positions on the education issues most public school parents care about, whether it’s keeping the cap on charter schools, more equitable education funding, reducing class size or reforming mayoral control; see their surveys here.  Jia, in particular, is a NYC teacher and has testified eloquently before Congress on the damage done by high stakes testing.

In contrast, Governor Cuomo is still captive to the charter lobby.  He just received $130,000 from donors with ties to the charter school industry, including the heirs to the Walmart fortune, Eva Moskowitz’ PAC and others.  During his one debate with Mark Molinaro,  Cuomo said he would sit down with Mayor de Blasio to try to persuade him to give charters more space in our public school buildings.