And then there were none… Trustees of the State University of New York are expected to grant the final four charters allowed under the law today. Whether New York will continue to be able to provide quality new schooling options for kids and their families will depend on leadership, courage, and common sense. (It will also depend on existing charter schools to show New Yorkers why more are merited. That means you…)

Expected to be approved today: Green Tech High (Albany), Carl Icahn Bronx North, North Rochester, and Achievement First – Bushwick.

Don’t miss these important paragraphs in the Albany Times-Union story on Green Tech High:

James Merriman, executive director of the Charter School Institute, which
advises the trustees, said the Albany city district has a poor record of serving
black and Hispanic high school students, who make up Green Tech's target group.

Citing a high dropout rate and poor test scores, Merriman said Albany
High School students "appear to have done worse" than those in other schools
across New York with similar socioeconomic and racial demographics.

Randy Daniels, a trustee and former New York secretary of state who is
seeking the Republican nomination for governor, agreed. "In a school district
that has demonstrated failure, generation after generation, it needs all the
competition it can get."

Already, two proposed schools made it through the rigorous authorization process and were deemed charter-worthy, but they had to be put on a theoretical waiting list in case the cap is lifted at some point: Carl Icahn School of Far Rockaway in Queens and the Collegiate Charter School of Brooklyn.

See the NY Post story here, and the NY Daily News story here.