Success Academy, New York City’s largest charter network, announced it will move to remote learning next week, a move that will affect 18.000 students across 45 schools.

As New York City’s public school system prepares for the herculean task of transitioning its 1,1 million students to remote learning Monday, the city’s largest charter school network outlined its own path forward — stressing, above all else, the importance of keeping it simple.

In a remarkable webinar, New York City’s Success Academy Charter Schools shared its plans for going virtual starting March 19. None of us has been through anything like this before, and no one can claim a solution for shuttered schools. But Success consistently delivers extraordinary levels of student proficiency. So as districts and networks struggle to find their way in a shattered world, we’re all ears.

The CEO of Success Academy had just opened a Tuesday-afternoon webinar on her network’s transition from forty-five brick-and-mortar charter schools to the anticipated launch, less than forty-eight hours away, of “remote learning” for its eighteen thousand students. More than two-thousand people signed up for the webinar.

In a remarkable webinar this afternoon, Success Academy shared their plans for going virtual starting Thursday. None of us have been through anything like this before, and no one can claim a solution for shuttered schools. But Success consistently delivers extraordinary levels of student proficiency. So as districts and networks struggle to find their way in a shattered world, we’re all ears.

The city’s largest charter school is moving to remote learning over concerns of coronavirus.

With just hours before the March 6 deadline, the DOE publicly posted two Queens locations where it will proved middle-school space for Success this fall: It will give the network more room for two years at one Far Rockaway building (MS 53) where Success already has a primary school, and for one year give the middle-schoolers space at IS 238 in Hollis.

Success Academy Charter Schools officials have confirmed that the Department of Education is weighing two temporary sites for a Queens-based middle school.