Eva Moskowitz
Background
Eva Moskowitz, a native New Yorker, is the founder/CEO of Success Academy Charte𒈔r Schools. She previously served on ♎the New York City Council.
Latest Articles
Why Success Academy is going all in on the APs —𓄧 disadvantaged students deserve to be prepared for college
New York's charter network Success Academy helps disadvantaged kids in NYC public schools prepare for college by𒅌 backing standardized testing like Advanced Placement. 🦂
๊ Get kids reading books — not phone screens
A new book by educator Eva Moskowitz advises parents to keep their kids away from tablets and smartphones and reading books instead. 🎶 ജ
Union boss Weingarten thinks you're a racist if you want good schools for your kids
Randi Weingarten is now backpedaling something she previously said claiming that she was just making an innocent comment about “language” rather than actually ac﷽cusin🐻g anyone of being racist.
ꦇ Post experts give their unvarnished view on Hochul’s $22📖9 billion boondoggle
ꦆ New York is not expected to keep up with growing demand over the next two decades, and the state plans to replace reliable natural gas power plants with unreliable wind...
Politicians, it's time to lift your 'cap' to success of charter schools
The cap on charter schools in New York City is keeping our children from excelling in the classro❀om.
Give more kids ꧅a chance at𝔍 a good public school: Lift the charter cap
This month, thousands of parents will open envelopes and learn they have won the lottery: a seat for their child at a charter school. I꧒t’s an opportu💦nity they’ve waited months,...
Why we need an🐬 outsider like Betsy DeVos as education🤪 secretary
Some people complain that Presi𓂃dent Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, would be quite unlike her predecessors. That’s true, but it’s a good thin🅰g when you consider the...
Kids deserve many more es꧒cape routes from failing public schools
I am actually not used to being honored. You may recall that the mayor told a cheering audience of teachers-union members it was “time for🌸 Eva Moskowitz to stop . . ....
Herman Badillo's school revolution
In many ways, Herman Badillo set💯 the tone for the revolution in education reform that we’re experiencing today. He spent de💯cades promoting the ideals that we in the charter-school movement...
Stop stealing New York kids' future
Today ♔I will march along with thousands of other New York City public-school parents. We do so because we love the ideal of public education but are painfully aware of...
Schools can help ไall kids—poverty is no excuse
In too many inner-city neighborhoods, schools are dead-ends. Instead of equipping poor children with the skills𒁃 they need to escape poverty, bad schools lower their expectations and sink their hopes....
Bill de Blasio’s war on good schools 🃏
Bill de Blasio’s campaign theme is a “Tale of Two Cities.” Yet his pronouncements suggest that, as mayor, he’d create his own tale of two cities: one for families who... ꦿ
School discipline 101
Some mayoral candidates are complaining that schools are suspending students too much. I’m not so sure. My father wound up a𒁃 professor of mathematics, but as a child he was...
The politics of envy
This fall, more than 70,000 students will attend charter schools in New York City. But, sadly, another 𒆙50,000 are now on waiting lists. You’d think that this would cause our...
Charter-school envy
The Success Academy Charter Schools, which I run, are criticized for taking advantage of Mayor Bloomberg’s policy allowing us to use excess space available in the buildings of🍸 district-run schools.... ꦇ
💝The lobby against NYC school success
Opponents of S🍸uccess Academy Cobble Hill recently created perhaps the most apropos hashtag in the brief history of Twitter: “#nosuccess.” Some might find it rather odd that, in a city...
Giving children🌼 a chance
Why is the Success Charter Network opening a new public charter school on the Upper West Side? Because that neighborhood — like th🅷e rest of the city — needs more...
The wrong layoffs
🌺 Regrettably, it now appears likely that budget cuts will require teacher layoffs in Newꦫ York City public schools. These will be based solely on seniority under the current teachers-union contract....
THE CLAMOR FOR CHARTERS
TODAY, parents of 3,600 children will crowd into the Harlem Armory to find out whether their children will win a lottery for 600 spaces in the Harlem Succe𒁃ss Academy Charter...