#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal
Citizens Of The World Charter School: The Unwelcomed House Guest
Shirley Avenue Elementary is not the first community to fight off an invasion from this nationwide chain of publicly funded private schools.
-NYC Parent
The charter school industry claims as a marketing point that they have long waiting lists and that this justifies their continued expansion. As an example, Citizens of the World Charter Schools (CWC) states on their web site that their “schools are in strong demand” and that “in 2015, [they] had 10 times more interest than space.” Since these waiting lists are not made public and are not independently audited, there is no way to verify the actual number of students on these lists or to gauge the interest level. However, it does seem strange that a school like CWC, which…