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Public schools 'doing bad things to children': Success Charter head
If Mayor de Blasio thought a leading advocate for charter schools would be silenced after reaching a deal with the city for more space, he was badly mistaken. Charter chief...
Charter founder's formula for fighting racial inequality
Testifying before Congress on Tuesday, the witness deplored “inequality,” championed “disadvantaged” kids and lamented that black males are twice as likely to be out of work as whites. Who was...
Judge's slapdown of New York's public advocate over charters
A state judge has struck a blow for common sense, repudiated an elected official aiming to rule by lawsuit and given hope to moms and dads looking for a decent...
All Brown's children
Sixty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the principle of separate but equal. In Brown v. Board of Education, the justices delivered a hammer blow to...
An unconscionable silence: 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education
Today is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregation in the schools. Below are excerpts from prepared remarks that State Education Commissioner John King delivered...
Charter schools in demand despite City Hall disdain
Mayor de Blasio may have issues with Eva Moskowitz’s charter schools, but parents don’t. New data show that the parents of 426 kids in Central Harlem — one out of...
Charter school head plans giant rally before state exams
The charter-school network that had been under siege by the de Blasio administration organized what it called “the largest academic pep rally” in the US Tuesday to prepare its students for...
Shake it up, baby
In the course of admitting he didn’t have a good reason for taking a good school away from kids in Harlem, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that to fix a...
Marie Antoinette Fariña 2
They say actions speak louder than words. If so, what are we to make of Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s visit on Friday to PS 149 in Harlem? A week ago,...
Taking New York's school fight national
What a moment New York is in over charter schools. Mayor de Blasio has managed to illuminate the heroism of Eva Moskowitz and the families of her Success Academy. It...
Eva Moskowitz: I’ll sue de Blasio for charter-school space
New York’s largest charter-schools operator is threatening to sue Mayor de Blasio if the city boots its students out of space promised in the fall. “The mayor continues to play politics...