Buffalo Board of Education hopes to increase seats at top-performing schools

Tiffany Lankes

The new Buffalo Board of Education majority intends to start dramatically overhauling the city’s schools when it meets Wednesday, proposing significant changes such as increasing the number of charter schools and lobbying for more state intervention in the school system.

The ultimate goal is to increase the number of spots in high-performing schools by about 4,300 in the next two years, which could potentially touch 13 percent of the district’s students.

But executing that plan hangs on garnering support from a long list of stakeholders, ranging from parents and teachers to charter school operators and state lawmakers.

A major part of the new board majority’s six-point strategy is to encourage the growth of charter schools by offering incentives to entice both successful local charters and national charter management organizations.


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