Reply #6: Is the charter paying rent for the space?

[wildeyed]

In NC where I live, charters are funded differently that regular public schools. Both my kids go to a charter school. We get the same per pupil funding as public schools, but no start up money for a building and no bond money. We have no library, instead busing the kids to the public library every other week. We share space with a private school, but pay them rent, of course. So if the NY system is anything similar, this is a negotiated agreement that involves payment from the charter school to the public school. If someone in the local government negotiated a bad agreement, they should be held responsible but is hardly seems the charter school's fault.