As one of more than 200 competitors at the New York City Urban Debate League’s City Championships, Josiah—a fifth grader at Success Academy Bed-Stuy Middle School—was in the right place.

Former City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz talks common core, NYC education.

The latest sign of this success is the charter network announced yesterday they will open three new elementary schools and two middle schools in Brooklyn for the 2016-17 academic year.

Fewer kids transferred out of Success Academy schools than out of traditional public schools in their local community school districts.

I reject the notion that we must be defined in the negative, by what we are not, and instead urge us to embrace a new nomenclature.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the Success Charter School Network sat down with Errol Louis to discuss her legal battle with the de Blasio administration over her network’s pre-kindergarten program.

This year charter-school enrollment grew by 260.000 students nationwide. Most of the fastest-growing charter networks, including Success Academies in New York City, which I run, believe we have a responsibility both to push children to achieve their potential and to protect them from the mayhem that in district schools often robs students of their opportunity to learn.

Three years ago, when I was getting ready to enroll my son, Isaiah, in kindergarten, I took a close look at the schools in my neighborhood, and what I saw scared me.

The elementary schools in the part of Brooklyn where we live — Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights — were overcrowded and unsafe.

By all means, let’s have a conversation about expanding accesses to high-performing charters. But let’s make sure those conversations are grounded in facts and good faith.

How has the city caught up to the rest of the state? The IBO report finds that charter schools are a major factor.