Elected officials and policymakers have a choice about where to invest educational resources and a responsibility to invest wisely. Charter schools are, simply put, a good investment. Our findings are just one more reason why lawmakers in Albany should raise the cap on charters in New York City and give the more than 53,000 Big Apple families on charter waitlists the chance to get the sound education they deserve.

Throughout April, the city’s public charters, including Success Academy, the network I operate, will hold their annual lotteries to select who gets a seat. These are needed because city charter schools have far more applicants than available slots for kids. Last year, applications to the city’s public charter schools hit an all-time high. More than 79,600 families vied for fewer than 27,000 seats, leaving 52,000 kids on waiting lists. The solution? Use available space in public-school buildings to co-locate new public charters.

Jessica Hyatt, an eighth grader at Success Academy Bed-Stuy Middle School, took the top place in the New York State Scholastic Championship High School U1800 Division this past weekend, Success Academy announced.

The Daily Mail interviews Success Academy Fort Greene Assistant Principal, Kendrah Underwood, about how she incorporates songs from everyday life to teach her scholars.

Charter-school network Success Academy had all of its eighth-graders take the state Algebra 1 Regents exam last year — and notched a 99 percent pass rate. In addition, 93 percent of Success Academy eighth-graders had scores considered “college ready,” while 56 percent notched the highest score level of 5.

Student potters at a Success Academy Cobble Hill recently crafted hundreds of ceramic bowls as part of an art project to help fight hunger in the city. Stocking and setting up the bowl boutique, proceeds from which went to the do-gooders feeding the hungry at the Food Bank for New York City, taught the youngsters how art can dovetail with larger social issues, and be used as a medium to make change, according to their art teacher.

Susana Taveras remembers her son was in pre-K at Success Academy Charter Schools the year she realized that she was going to have to defend his right to be there. That fall, the de Blasio administration insisted that Success Academy sign a 241-page contract dictating how to run pre-K. So, she became a plaintiff in a lawsuit saying that Mayor de Blasio was misinterpreting the law and overstepping his authority to dictate charter school policies and curriculum.

The city’s education policy panel gave a formal stamp of approval for Success Academy to run a middle school in the same building as a small Brooklyn elementary school Wednesday night. Success Academy Lafayette, a middle school that was forced to open in a different building this school year, will now move into the P.S. 25 building in Bedford-Stuyvesant next school year.

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 their programs. Yet it shouldn’t have taken three years to reach that verdict.