New York’s top education officials have sued the State University of New York to block new rules that would let many charter schools certify their own teachers, court papers released Friday show. In a suit filed against the SUNY Board of Trustees in Supreme Court in Albany on Thursday, the state Board of Regents and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia claimed the new rules would erode teacher quality and hurt disadvantaged students. The suit said SUNY’s charter-oversight body overstepped its authority in voting to let charters...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 09, 2018 21:10 UTC