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.

The state’s highest court on Tuesday struck down as illegal a New York City edict to regulate pre-kindergarten programs operated by charter schools.

The decision is a victory for Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools, which sought to open pre-K programs at its schools.

New York state’s highest court has sided with charter school network Success Academy in a dispute with New York City education officials regarding oversight of universal prekindergarten programs.

The court affirmed a decision from the Appellate Division, which ruled that an interpretation of the 2014 state law expanding universal pre-K gives charter entities—rather than local school districts—almost exclusive oversight of those programs at charter schools.

If the chancellor wants to know the real reasons parents choose charter over traditional public schools, he should just ask us. Or the 53.000 families on charter waiting lists across New York City. Yet I feel like he already knows: Department of Education-run schools are failing kids miserably in neighborhoods like Harlem — while charters are working wonders.

Dozens of fourth graders at Success Academy Cobble Hill participated in the school’s first-ever Empty Bowls fundraiser to help feed hungry New Yorkers. The hardworking students, and some faculty, created 215 colorful bowls which they sold for $5 each at a potluck lunch Wednesday afternoon. All funds raised from the sales of the bowls will benefit Food Bank For New York City.

Based on the Success chairman of the Network Board, Steven Galbraith, knows there’s a major cognitive dissonance among both our political detractors and supporters. More than 94% of Success Academy scholars are of color. They come from all five boroughs. The median annual income of our families is under $45.000. Of our seven-person leadership team, six—including CEO Eva Moskowitz—are women, and 46% of our teachers are minorities, compared with less than 20% nationally. Collectively, the Success community could hardly be described as the prototypical beneficiary of radical right-wing politics.

The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) announced today that Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, will be honored at the 2018 National Summit on Education Reform on Friday, December 7 in Washington, D.C.