Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City decided to shift to virtual education even before the government ordered children […]
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10.2.2018
10:42am
It means something that kids are excelling at many of the city’s independently run public schools, which overwhelmingly serve low-income blacks and Latinos. Overall, charters outpaced district-run schools. At 37 Success Academy schools, 98% of kids passed state math tests; 91% passed English tests.
9.27.2018
9:07am
With 47 schools and 17,000 scholars this year, the Success Academy network is now the size of the state’s seventh-largest school district and educates one in 60 New York City public school students. On this year’s state exams, 98% of Success scholars passed math and 91% passed ELA — making Success #1 for student achievement in New York State.
9.26.2018
5:25pm
The charter school where Beverly Persad has sent three children, Success Academy Cobble Hill, is exuberantly diverse, with a student body that closely mirrors the district’s demographics: Low-income, white, black and Hispanic students are equally represented. It’s a school with the highest achievement in District 15, as measured on state tests, and the smallest intergroup performance gaps in virtually the entire city. Despite these tremendous achievements, the mayor and the Department of Education have actively obstructed our community, refusing to grant public space for our middle school since 2014.
8.10.2018
2:43pm
Success Academy Schools Founder Eva Moskowitz sat down with Errol Louis to talk about the school year ahead and her thoughts on the new Schools Chancellor.
7.30.2018
1:06pm
On July 10, six Success parents filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the DOE panel that handles special-ed cases in the South Bronx, known as the Committee on Special Education 1, routinely discriminates against Success Academy scholars and disproportionately deprives them of their right to an appropriate education. Liz Vandlik, a Success Academy principal, described how she wants CSE 1 to do its part to help this South Bronx community.
7.27.2018
6:58am
Replicating excellence is already the model of high-performing public charter networks like KIPP New York and Success Academies. They start with a couple of schools, deliver excellent results, and then build more of them. The results are unprecedented, particularly for the students who are low-income and students of color.
7.23.2018
9:24am
Mayor de Blasio hates the Success Academy charter schools so much that his minions are even taking it out on Success kids who need special education.
The ugly facts are laid out in a new suit the network just filed on behalf of six parents whose children were unfairly denied the extra help they’re legally entitled to.
7.16.2018
9:03am
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza says “charter schools are public schools” and pledges to treat the independently run, publicly funded institutions fairly. Words are nice, but he’s failing his first big pragmatic test.
7.16.2018
8:58am
Two days before signing a lease on a new apartment in Brooklyn, I heard that the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was blocking the opening of Success Academy Lafayette Middle School. I had been planning to move from my home in Harlem to Brooklyn to teach English at this school.
7.16.2018
8:57am
