Klein takes the money to reduce class size and increases class size.

Commissioner David Steiner

Juan Gonzalez of the NY Daily News reports on the latest Joel Klein scam.

In 2007 as part of a major state funding plan, big bucks were to be spent on NY schools to lower class size.

Chancellor Klein took the money. Then this year he went to Education Commissioner David Steiner and asked for permission to increase class size.

Permission granted.

Even some members of the state Board of Regents were surprised to learn of Steiner’s action.

“I am very disappointed that the state is not doing its part to ensure that the [city] Department of Education complies with its original contract,” said Betty Rosa, a state regent from the Bronx.

“The public has been excluded from this process as it unfolded,” said Geri Palast, director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the nonprofit group that spearheaded decades of court challenges against Albany’s unequal school- funding formula.

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