Differentiation and choice are crucial to chartering and, arguably, their absence is the biggest problem with traditional district schooling overall.

The Success Academy network of charter schools, whose funding from the city for Pre-K programs is on hold, has launched a petition protesting the lack of subsidization, saying it will be forced to cancel Pre-K classes.

The law’s clear: De Blasio’s in the wrong.

Boston’s teachers are taught to understand the complexities of child development, and receive abundant coaching from knowledgeable veterans. The curriculum is calculated to get children’s minds in gear.

For Sarah Polanco, a longtime Williamsburg resident and parent of two young children, the de Blasio Administration’s highly marketed universal ‘Pre-K for All’ campaign should be tweaked to ‘Pre-K for Some’ to reflect a bigger reality.

The war against charter schools being waged by much of the education establishment and City Hall on multiple fronts continues unabated.

It takes grit—a powerful, sustained passion—for learners young and old to ultimately succeed in school and work, Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor who studies top achievers, told an audience of educators and ed-tech providers here at BETT, the world’s largest ed-tech tradeshow.

The latest attack on the city’s largest charter-school network comes via a federal complaint filed by parents of 13 special-education students once or still enrolled in a Success Academy. Yet the real special-ed scandal in this town centers on the shameful way the regular schools fail such children.

More than 500 cheering, chanting New York City charter-school students and supporters rallied in Albany on Wednesday to demand equality with traditional public schools when it comes to state funding.

It is not that these students are deficient in capability or intellect; it’s that society has failed them by allowing public schools to deny them the tools they need for postsecondary success.