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Albany just chose to play politics with NYC schools — at our kids' expense
Parents, children and everyone who cares about education should be raising hell and demanding the Legislature revisit this issue before the end of the school year.
Why Success Academy is going all in on the APs — disadvantaged students deserve to be prepared for college
New York's charter network Success Academy helps disadvantaged kids in NYC public schools prepare for college by backing standardized testing like Advanced Placement.
The UFT's cynical war on charters
Friday's court hearing on the UFT lawsuit to block the co-location of two Success Academy charters was packed with parents outraged that their kids' interests weren't being represented.
Shameless profiteering by the NYC Department of Education
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza needs to tell his minions to stop trying to cash in on the pandemic: NY1 reports that the Department of Education is even trying to milk...
Success Academy shows how school leaders behave when kids come first
Once again, the leaders of the Success Academy charter network are showing what it means to truly put children and their education first. Every year, SA schools start classes weeks...
More children de Blasio's Department of Education is poised to fail
The city Department of Education has just over three weeks left to make good on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promises to find a school building for hundreds of Queens kids...
Justice for Success
Success Academy students, parents and staff will fill the steps of City Hall on Monday with a rally to demand justice from Team de Blasio — specifically, long-promised space for...
A big win for pre-K kids — and a defeat for de Blasio
Kids just won a key battle against Mayor de Blasio: The state’s top court said Hizzoner can’t deny funding for pre-K at charters that refuse to give him control of...
How the city is failing my special-education students
Working as a school principal in the South Bronx, I’ve seen a wonderful, vibrant community. Parents come to my school hoping an effective education will put their children on the...
De Blasio is at war with the schools that do what he says he wants
It does exactly what Mayor de Blasio says he wants the city school system to do: provide a great education, especially to low-income black and Hispanic kids, sending them off...
Sacrificing schoolchildren for a political vendetta
Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña won’t stop sacrificing schoolchildren to a private vendetta. On Monday, Fariña offered a pathetic response to requests for middle-school space from the...
The safety net anti-Ryan protesters don't want to talk about
It’s no accident that the hundreds of left-wing protesters who jeered House Speaker Paul Ryan’s visit Tuesday to a Harlem charter school only wanted to scream about health care —...
'The city is turning a blind eye to children with special needs'
There’s no room for new or expanding charter schools in the Big Apple — because the de Blasio administration continues to flout state law by refusing to guarantee them space,...
Demand is overwhelming to get kids into charter schools
City parents are clamoring to land their kids a highly coveted seat at Success Academy Charter Schools, with demand far outstripping supply, The Post has learned. More than 20,000 students...
New York Times can't stand that charter schools succeed, so it must try to destroy them
In 1979, Mr. O’Hearn’s room in Birchland Park Junior High School was the home of a reign of terror. Our English teacher mocked us. He rolled his eyes. He told...
A mother's plea: For the children, stop bashing charters
On June 10, I went to the Panel for Educational Policy hearing near City Hall to speak in favor of the proposed co-location of a Success Academy charter school with...
19,700 kids' dashed hopes
The Success Academy charter network has released the results of its entrance lottery last week: 2,317 lucky kids won a seat; 19,700 children did not. Some of those students will...
The problem with Eva Moskowitz
Eva Moskowitz may be working tirelessly on behalf of the city’s kids, but plainly it’s not enough. Last week, her Success Academy charter-school network got the OK to open 14...
Critics argue charter schools are under-enrolled
Success breeds contempt. On the same day State University of New York trustees approved 14 new Success Academy charters in New York City anti-charter activists charged that two-thirds of Success...
Charter school leader offers to share techniques with principals
Eva Moskowitz wants to share her Success. The charter school leader is inviting elementary school principals from across the city to attend a free workshop on techniques that have helped...