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.

Success Academy saved my daughter — yet now it’s being falsely accused of kicking out kids just like her.

I wish I could claim that I’ve developed some revolutionary pedagogical approach at Success, but the humbling truth is this: Most of what I know about teaching I learned from one person, an educator named Paul Fucaloro who taught in New York City district schools for four decades.

We witnessed the overwhelmingly positive impact that the Success Academy’s teaching philosophy and methodology have on its students. We also saw the enthusiasm of the majority of parents with children in the school and the joy within its classrooms.

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.