This year, a remarkable 95 percent of SA kids passed the math exam; 84 percent passed English. The citywide pass rates were just 38 percent and 41 percent. SA students of color outperformed the citywide rates for white children. So did Success’ special-needs scholars, and those who live in shelters.

With 46 schools and 15.500 students this year, the Success Academy network is now the size of state’s 7th largest school district. On this year’s state exams, 95% of Success students passed math and 84% passed ELA — making Success #1 for student achievement in New York State.

If the mayor, many elected leaders, and those in the education establishment, cared as much about the sad state of black and brown student achievement as they do about scoring political points, maybe New York would have embarked on a serious and sweeping plan to make the city’s promise of public education a reality

We’ll know by the end of September if Mayor de Blasio really means to make peace with the charter-school movement, its leaders announced Monday: Will the Department of Education grant charters’ 27 open requests for space for the 2018-19 school year?

The city must provide space for 27 new and growing charter schools that need classrooms, owners and advocates charge.

More than two dozen of the privately run, publicly funded schools are waiting for the city to answer their requests for space, advocates with the charter lobby group Families for Excellent Schools said Monday.

While serving similarly disadvantaged populations, Success Academy students consistently outperform those at Renewal Schools, by a wide margin.

Groundbreaking new research from Temple University assistant professor Sarah Cordes finds that in New York City, the arrival of a charter school has a positive effect on students in the traditional school already located in the building.

New research proves that being near a charter school leads to better outcomes for kids. After traditional schools started sharing facilities with charters, the kids in those traditional schools saw significant boosts in math and reading scores, not to mention improvement in school safety and student engagement.

Far from hurting existing schools, new charter schools in New York City have actually helped their neighbors improve, according to a new study.

CNN recently interviewed Success Academy Bronx 2 theater teacher Sentell Harper about a spoken-word piece he created for his fourth-grade students to perform about what it means to be black and male in America.