Panel Votes to Close 10 Schools Following Raucous Hearing
A panel controlled by mayoral appointees voted to close 10 low-performing schools Tuesday night following a raucous public hearing that pushed beyond midnight.Roughly 2,000 parents, students and...
View ArticleParents in Limbo Over Lawsuit Against UWS Charter School
A lawsuit aimed at stopping a charter school from opening inside an Upper West Side high school has thrown scores of families into limbo.Daniella Ballou-Aares has a 4-1/2-year-old daughter who is...
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City Goes to Court Over Charter Schools
The city, the teachers union and the NAACP will square off in court Tuesday over plans to let 19 charter schools take space in the same buildings as regular schools. And, like most things in New York...
View ArticleKeeping 'Success' in a Success Academy School
There was almost no "success" at the new Upper West Side charter school opened this year by Eva Moskowitz, the former city councilwoman.At least not in the name.Ms. Moskowitz has nine charter schools...
View ArticleMiddle School Plan Draws Widespread Attention
In the news today, there was widespread coverage of Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott's policy speech announcing new plans for the city's lagging middle schools.Among the proposals, Mr. Walcott said he...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Is Planning a School for Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Fresh from a bruising battle to open a charter school on the Upper West Side, Eva S. Moskowitz, the former city councilwoman who runs a network of charters in New York City, is gearing up to expand...
View ArticleWho Will Be at Friday's 11th-Hour Layoffs Protest?
Their pink slips arrived weeks ago but, barring a final-hour agreement, Friday is the day that more than 700 employees in 347 city schools will be laid off. The decision by Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott...
View ArticleHigh Teacher Turnover at a Success Network School
More than a third of the staff members at a Harlem charter school run by the Success Charter Network have left the school within the last several months, challenging an organization that prides itself...
View ArticleSuccess Academy Charter Battle, Take Two
Here is what is making news in education on Tuesday in the New York area:Eva S. Moskowitz is deep into another battle, this time in Brooklyn, where she is trying to start one of her Success Academy...
View ArticleMore Seats for Lower Manhattan, But Not Right Away
Nearly 200 seats will be added to an elementary school planned for Lower Manhattan, city Education Department officials announced on Tuesday, but that additional space in a neighborhood that sorely...
View ArticleVote Set on Cobble Hill Charter School
The big focus of the news on Wednesday is the news that is likely to be made Wednesday night when the Panel for Educational Policy meets in Queens to discuss, among other things, the proposal by the...
View ArticleSuccess Academy Blitzes Cobble Hill
Cobble Hill residents strolling down Atlantic Avenue near Clinton Street this week can see a new bus shelter ad for a charter school opening in their neighborhood this fall. The Success Academy ad...
View ArticleObama Praises Teachers and Calls for Mandatory Attendance
Should students be required to remain in school until age 18? That was the one concrete proposal for K-12 students in President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.The president, who...
View ArticleSUNY Trustee Resigns Over Objections to Charter Schools
11:33 a.m. | Updated A State University of New York trustee who oversaw the board's creation of new charter schools has resigned, citing concerns that SUNY's Charter Schools Institute has a political...
View ArticleCobble Hill Parents Sue to Block Success Academy 3
Eva S. Moskowitz and her Success Academy charter schools are in the news on Thursday, again as the target of a lawsuit to try to stop her from establishing another school, this time in Cobble Hill,...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Wins Approval to Open a Williamsburg School
The Panel for Educational Policy gave Eva S. Moskowitz the green light on Thursday to open a charter school inside of a Williamsburg middle school building, but opponents of the plan are taking the...
View ArticleIn New Book, Success Academy Operator Promotes Charter Schools and Offers...
Eva Moskowitz, the charter chain operator, has been planting schools in New York City at a breakneck pace, with five expected to open in August. But that hasn't kept Ms. Moskowitz, a well-known...
View ArticleConditional 'Yes' on Money for 24 City Schools
A new week brings the last days of public school in New York City -- as well as confusion over who goes to school and when. (Many private school students are already tucked into their camp bunks.)Last...
View ArticleChances of Admission to a Charter School Improving
As more charter schools open in New York City, the odds of getting into the privately managed public schools are rising while the demand for seats continues also to rise, according to the New York City...
View ArticleCharter Leader Denies Insider's Advantage
Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz isn’t making any apologies. And the outspoken CEO of the charter school network denied having any special advantages over other school leaders.Her comments on...
View ArticleMayor, Governor Push Competing Education Agendas
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke at competing rallies in Albany Tuesday, in a highly visible sign of how far apart they remain over their competing education agendas, particularly how...
View ArticleOne Charter School Group Sits Out Latest Battle
While some charter operators rallied in Albany this week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, others were working more quietly behind the scenes.Stacey Gauthier is the principal of the Renaissance Charter School in...
View ArticleNYC Charter School Fight Moves to Court
The controversial founder of the Success Academy charter schools, Eva Moskowitz, said on Monday that her network and a group of parents filed a lawsuit to reverse the city's decision to block a middle...
View ArticleCharter School Leader Puzzled By 'Bizarre' Feud with Mayor
New York City has more than 180 privately managed public charter schools. But from recent media coverage, it's easy to think there is only one charter group led by one outspoken leader: Eva...
View ArticleMayor Continues to Defend, Define Position on Charters
Following his more conciliatory remarks on charter schools at Riverside Church on Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer he believes there is room for charters to grow in New York City,...
View ArticleCity Finds Buildings For 'Homeless' Charter Schools
City Hall said it's close to a deal on new sites for two of the three charter schools it blocked from opening this fall, by finding them space in former Catholic schools, and that it's still seeking a...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Network Puts New Siting Rules to the Test
The head of a high-profile charter network said on Tuesday she would apply to open 14 more schools in New York City in 2015 and 2016, sparking what is sure to be a major test of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s...
View ArticleNo Public Record of Cuomo and Charters
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has no public records showing how he came to attend and speak at a massive charter school rally in early March.WNYC asked the governor's office for records of all...
View ArticleNew York Allows Charters to Grow Inside Shared School Buildings
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration said Wednesday that four charter schools could have space in public school buildings to expand, in the first real test of a new state law that preserves the right...
View ArticleCity Nears Charter Cap as 17 More Schools Win Approval
A State University of New York committee charged with overseeing charter schools authorized 17 more charter schools to open in New York City over the next two years, 14 of them operated by the city's...
View ArticleMayor De Blasio's Charter School Dilemma
When Bill de Blasio was campaigning for mayor, he supported a one-year “moratorium” on locating multiple schools in the same building. He also said it was time for charter school network leader Eva...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Schools Secure More City Space
The Department of Education agreed on Thursday to give more space to the city's largest charter school network, Success Academy. The backroom deal came a day after Success founder Eva Moskowitz...
View ArticleNYC Rejects 12 Charter School Bids for Public Space, Approves 12
The Department of Education is making way for two elementary schools run by the locally-based Icahn Charter network to add middle schools in the Bronx but it rejected 12 other requests for space made...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Network Scales Back 2015 Expansion Plans
The city's largest charter network has withdrawn plans to open four new charter schools this year but remains on track to open them as part of its expansion in the 2016-17 school year.The story was...
View ArticleEva Moskowitz Weighs In
Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of the Success Charter Network and a former New York City Council member, gives her take on the governor's education reform proposals and talks about the record...
View ArticleCharter Leader Moskowitz Defends Her Policies, Won't Say if She's Running for...
Success Academies charter school leader Eva Moskowitz did nothing to dispel rumors that she's considering a run for mayor on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show today. When asked by Leher asked if that's her plan...
View ArticleDoes Becoming a Parent Make You More Selfish or Selfless?
Does becoming a parent make you more community-minded, or more selfish? Give us a call or comment below -- 212-433-9692. We're asking this question because it came up in a conversation with Success...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: The Nation Magazine, Des Bishop & Eva Moskowitz
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.The Nation's 150th Anniversary (First) | Comedian Des Bishop (Starts at 27:14) | Eva Moskowitz (Starts at 42:10)If you don't...
View ArticleReport: Most NYC Charter Schools Replace Students who Leave
New York City charter schools have widely different policies when it comes to replacing students who leave, according to a new report by the Independent Budget Office, but most in the report's sample...
View ArticleCharter Leader Moskowitz Not Running for Mayor After All
"I am not running for mayor in 2017." With those words, charter school leader Eva Moskowitz ended the near-term speculation about her political future. The intrigue had only grown since August, when...
View ArticlePro-Charter Think Tank Downgrades City's Rating, Citing 'de Blasio' Effect
A think tank that’s strongly supportive of charter schools argued in a study released Wednesday that New York City was no longer the hub for school choice that it was under former Mayor Michael...
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The Year in Education: Politics All Around
The politics of education dominated 2015 from Albany to Brooklyn's waterfront.Cuomo's About Face: Gov. Andrew Cuomo started the year with guns blazing, as he took on the teachers unions. After...
View ArticleFamilies File Federal Complaint Against Success Charters
Families of 13 city children with special needs have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights against the Success Academy charter schools.The 23-page complaint...
View ArticleAs Charter School Climate Changes, Founder's Tactics Remain the Same
When an electrical problem forced the Washington Irving school building to shut down last week, all but one of the schools that share the site relocated. The exception was a Success Academy charter...
View ArticleSuccess Charter School Sues State Over Pre-K Contract
The Success Academy charter network said it filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling, which backed New York City's contract requirement for all...
View ArticleDe Blasio Defends His Approach to Fixing NYC Schools
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week revisited his philosophical differences with the charter school movement when discussing state test scores and his pride in in the city's progress, claiming...
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Success at 10: Longtime Students Look Back
The Success Academy Charter Schools network has grown at a rapid pace over the last decade. As the largest charter network in New York City, it operates 41 schools serving 14,000 students from...
View ArticleCharter Leader Moskowitz Says She's Not Interested in Working for Trump
A day after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his midtown skyscraper, Eva Moskowitz said she planned to stay put in New York to focus on her Success Academy network of charter...
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