Silver: Budget provides space, funding increase for charters

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Jessica Bakeman and Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY—A tentative budget agreement would guarantee space for charter schools that have been approved for co-locations and increase per-pupil funding for charters across the state, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told Capital on Thursday night.

Under the plan, three Success Academy charter schools whose co-location approvals were denied by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio would have to be accommodated in district school buildings. But the three schools, part of the Success Academy network operated by C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz, would not necessarily be in the buildings where they were originally sited.

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