Charter schools with such achievements should be celebrated and imitated, not attacked by critics because of their “unfair” exemptions from some of the counterproductive rules of the education establishment. Maybe such rules should be changed for all.

Critics are trying to tear down New York’s Success Academies when they should be learning from them.

Success Academy Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz on the national media’s portrayal of charter schools. 

If we continue to improve by one percentage point every year, it will take until the year 2062 for even half of the city’s black students to demonstrate college readiness. That’s a full 47 years. That’s generations of lost students. Can our city afford to wait that long?

Grammy- and Oscar-winning star Jennifer Hudson, introduced by two little girls, performed Wednesday for thousands of cheering charter school supporters in Brooklyn.

Thousands of parents and children are set to rally Wednesday in Brooklyn to urge New York City to help more independently run, publicly funded charter schools take root and have every chance to succeed.

Today, we are hoping that when we walk across the bridge and speak in one voice, City Hall listens to the thousands of parents massed on its doorstep and realizes it shouldn’t — and can’t — avoid us any longer.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. today joined charter school advocates and families to demand Mayor Bill de Blasio treat the privately-run schools “equitably”

Thousands of fired-up charter school supporters descended on City Hall Wednesday demanding that Mayor de Blasio put an end to education inequality by expanding the number of charters.

To me, my son is special and deserves a great school — but so do all kids. That’s why on Wednesday morning we will get up earlier than usual to be sure we make it to the rally for educational equality at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn.