Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City, is one of the most controversial — and successful — figures in public education reform. She met Thursday with the Tribune Editorial Board. Here are six points she made…

Students from Success Academy charter schools in the Bronx and Harlem captured three of the top 10 spots when 2.100 elementary school students from across the country faced off in the National Elementary Chess Championships in Nashville last weekend.

Two-thirds of the 16 million children living in poverty in this country don’t own any books, so when school lets out for the year, reading and learning does not just take a vacation, it deteriorates. This deterioration is known as “summer learning loss,” or “summer slide,” and it is disastrous, particularly for impoverished children.

New data show that New York City had 163.000 students on charter school waitlists last year — more than any other city in the country.

In an overburdened school system, NYC families should have an array of education options. They should be able to choose from zoned public schools, gifted and talented and special education programs, and specialized schools.

As a proud New York City educator who has taught in traditional public elementary schools, public charters and private schools, I wanted to know, both as a parent and a teacher, what theSuccess Academy hype was all about.

Across the state, students in grades three through eight have been sitting for three days of testing in English Language Arts and another three days for math. Many anxious families have been opting their children out of these standardized tests. Others have complained about the system as a whole and denigrate schools and teachers who embrace it.

Let me unequivocally put into the public record that I am here today because I strongly and unequivocally support good, high-quality public education — and that is what [founder and CEO] Eva Moskowitz and Success consistently deliver.

When educators blame low test scores on the high number of special-needs students in their school, or exempt special education kids from having to meet the same standards as their general-education peers, it makes me angry.

This week, 1,1 million children in New York State will take Common Core-aligned standardized tests amidst a growing national revolt against testing.

Standardized tests don’t measure real learning, just superficial test-taking skills, and our obsession with them is destroying our nation’s schools by taking away from real learning.

As the mother of a high school student who just took the SATs, I can empathize with those holding such views. But, as the head of a network of charter schools, I know these tenets of the anti-testing movement to be false.

“What’s going on at Success Academy?” Lots of folks are asking that question, thanks to the eye-popping test scores achieved by students at Eva Moskowitz’s network of New York City charter schools.