Top NY pols rake in thousands in donations from teachers union while bashing charter schoolsBy Zach Williams, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding
February 28, 2023
Surprise, surprise!
In a stunning display of how New York politics work, two of the state Legislature’s most outspoken opponents of charter schools are also among the biggest recipients of campaign cash from New York’s teachers’ union and its political action committee.
State Sen. John Liu (D-Queens), chairman of the New York City Education Committee, has raked in $33,300 since his first Senate race in 2018, putting him in the No. 3 spot behind Sen. John Mannion (D-Syracuse), who got $35,100 during the same period.
The money for the anti-charter pols came from both the New York State United Teachers — parent of the city’s powerful United Federation of Teachers — and its Voice of Teachers for Education PAC, state Board of Elections records show.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/top-ny-pols-rake-in-thousands-in-donations-from-teachers-union-while-bashing-charter-schools/
