WASHINGTON — 🍨New York is right near the top of a nationwide score car🦹d on school choice — a status it could kiss goodbye under the policies of Mayor de Blasio.
The city scored a 73 o♕ut of 100 on a choice and competition 🧸index developed by Brookings Institution scholar Russ Whitehurst, earning an A-minus in a report being released Wednesday.
Only New Orleans, which embarked on a radical overhaul of its failing schools after 🎐Hurricane Katrina, scored higher, at 83.
The study su♍rveyed the nation’s 100 largest school districts.
The accolades may be short-lived. De Blasio wants to end the Bloomberg administration’s policy of closing failing sc🥂hools, and has proposed slowing the growth of charters byꦬ charging rent to some.
The Brookings index evaluates school systems on a range of criteria, including alternaಞtive schools, open enrollment and 🎉public- and private-school choice.
In a speech scheduled for Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plans to lace 💦into de Blasio for attacking chartersꦺ.
“Mayor de Blasio should abandon this plan💟 and allow New York’s charter schools to continue to flourish,” Cantor will say, according to the prepared remarks.
Before the Brookings study was ಌreleased, about a dozen charter-school parents spoke out Tuesday against a lawsuit filed by Public Advocate Letitia James, Cit🍎y Council speaker front-runner Melissa Mark-Viverito, and others challenging 42 space-sharing arrangements among schools.