In America’s history, there has been no president whose K–12 experience mattered more than Obama’s.

Everyone in our district knows the middle schools are failing our kids, but it feels like the system has forgotten about communities like ours.

Some 1.100 charter parents rallied in Albany on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to protect the public schools that are delivering hope and opportunity in many of New York’s toughest neighborhoods.

ALBANY — Families from New York City traveled to the Capitol on Wednesday for #PathtoPossible Day of Action to support charter schools.

City charter schools serve more economically needy students and enroll a more financially diverse group of children than traditional public schools, a report from a pro-charter lobbying group shows.

Mayor de Blasio’s own allies, principals union president Ernie Logan and Public Advocate Tish James, have now joined a chorus of critics slamming his large, expensive gamble with New York City’s Renewal Schools as a failure. And with good reason.

According to a 2014 study by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, New York City’s schools are the most segregated in the entire nation. To fix this problem, we need to set aside petty squabbles and work together.

What do Jonathan Swift’s essay A Modest Proposal and the NAACP’s charter school moratorium resolution have in common? Far more than you might think.

When I moved to New York City from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, I knew the key to opportunity was going to be a good education.

To be sure, I cared deeply as a young man about health care, economic opportunity and poverty. But my ability to rise through the ranks as a Hispanic leader in New York City in order to tackle those issues was only possible because I was able to get an education that prepared me for the challenges ahead.

It’s really a simple problem with an obvious solution: Success Academy needs three middle school buildings in Brooklyn so that it can have full, grade 5-8 middle schools. Yet, despite the Mayor knowing this, his proposal falls short by hundreds of seats for middle school students like my son.