Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza opted to use the latest stop on his “listening tour” to offer a lecture — a warning to charter schools to shut up about the failures of regular public schools.
At Boys and Girls HS with Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday night to hear from parents, reports The Post’s Selim Algar, one questioner said she’s getting lots of charter-recruitment literature claiming to offer better opportunities than traditional schools.
Carranza’s thuggish answer was directed at the charters: “Do what you got to do. Do your enrollment thing. But don’t talk about our schools.” Why not, exactly?
(The mayor, meanwhile, hinted darkly that he’d be fixing this “problem” soon.)
“Parents have the ability and the right to choose the kind of education that meets the needs of their” kids, the chancellor rightly said. But they also need to know how their choices compare. And charters have every right (and duty!) to let parents know their students do far better on state exams.
Carranza, who calls himself a “social justice activist,” should be working to create more good educational choices — not trying to keep parents in the dark.