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Tompkins-Stange on Bloomberg's push to expand charter schools

December 10, 2021 Chalkbeat

Megan Tompkins-Stange, who studies philanthropic investments in education, calls former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $750 million push to expand charter schools "unprecedented." But charter schools face fierce political opposition.

"Bloomberg can only do so much,” she said. “You have geographic constraints with space. You have local regulatory constraints. And you have political will.”