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N.Y. Regents Release New Plan to Improve Schools

Albany, N.Y.

A new Board of Regents proposal to improve New York's public schools includes far more charter schools and would link teacher compensation and advancement to student performance.

Those are also requirements for New York to qualify for as much as $700 million in the Obama administration's Race to the Top funding, a new program to encourage school reform. But both measures have been successfully opposed so far by the state's powerful teachers' unions and the Legislature.

Much of the Regents' proposal requires the Legislature's approval. The plan would allow persistently low-performing schools to be converted to charter schools, potentially by an order of...