The article by former Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy shows that establishment figures still do not understand reforms like charter schools, and it helps explain his brief, undistinguished tenure (“Charters and Accountability,” PostOpinion, Jan. 21).

For the past two years, charters and school districts alike have been undergoing fiscal audits by the state comptroller, which we support.

Our lawsuit against the comptroller was prompted by his abusive, unequal treatment of adding so-called “performance” audits only to chancellor-approved charters and no other public schools.

This type of programmatic audit already is the proper purview of the chancellor and the regents, and it goes beyond the Legislature’s intent to require just fiscal audits.

Our fight against this state regulatory overkill upon chancellor-approved charters is something that should be respected by a former chancellor, rather than denigrated, based on misinformation.

Peter Murphy

Policy Director, NY Charter

Schools Association, Albany