All of the third graders in Success Academy Flatbush (SA Flatbush), which opened in 2016, passed the state tests in both […]
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7.27.2018
6:58 a.m.
Replicating excellence is already the model of high-performing public charter networks like KIPP New York and Success Academies. They start with a couple of schools, deliver excellent results, and then build more of them. The results are unprecedented, particularly for the students who are low-income and students of color.
7.23.2018
9:24 a.m.
Mayor de Blasio hates the Success Academy charter schools so much that his minions are even taking it out on Success kids who need special education.
The ugly facts are laid out in a new suit the network just filed on behalf of six parents whose children were unfairly denied the extra help they’re legally entitled to.
7.16.2018
9:03 a.m.
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza says “charter schools are public schools” and pledges to treat the independently run, publicly funded institutions fairly. Words are nice, but he’s failing his first big pragmatic test.
7.16.2018
8:58 a.m.
Two days before signing a lease on a new apartment in Brooklyn, I heard that the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was blocking the opening of Success Academy Lafayette Middle School. I had been planning to move from my home in Harlem to Brooklyn to teach English at this school.
7.16.2018
8:57 a.m.
7.11.2018
3:49 p.m.
This is an educational rights case about the New York City Department of Education Committee on Special Education 1’s systemic, repeated, and ongoing failure to provide Success Academy Charter Schools’ special needs students with adequate and timely special education support, in violation of laws that Congress passed to address this very issue.
7.11.2018
11:09 a.m.
The Success Academy charter school network says the city is routinely discriminating against its students in the South Bronx, delaying and denying special education services to children that need them.
7.11.2018
9:08 a.m.
The New York City education department is accused of routinely delaying and denying special education services to Success Academy students in the Bronx, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court by parents whose children attend the charter network.
6.22.2018
9:17 a.m.
Last week should have been a joyful celebration for our family as we watched our son Walker graduate to the fifth grade after an exceptional final year of elementary school. But we were completely blindsided when Mayor de Blasio announced that he is evicting Success Academy middle schoolers from a public school building in Brooklyn where Success has been located for the last two years.
6.21.2018
9:09 a.m.
City parents’ demand for charter-school seats just hit a new high, with nearly 80.000 lottery applicants. Unfortunately, the effort to choke charters’ growth means they’re competing for just 26.900 available seats. In the latest outrage, Carranza refuses to declare an emergency to end-run technical issues that stand in the way of giving the Success Academy its promised classrooms in a Bed-Stuy school building that has 900 empty seats.
