Dec 11, 2017, 3:30 PM
(from the New Yorker) From its start in 2006 with a single elementary school in Harlem, Success Academy has grown into a charter school network of 46 schools serving kindergarten through 12th grade in four of New York City's five boroughs. Most of the 15,000 students are black or Latino, at least two-thirds come from poor families, yet they get consistently high scores on the state's standardized tests. In the most recently available results, 95 percent of students achieved proficiency in math, and 84 percent achieved proficiency in English, compared to citywide public school rates of 36 and 38 percent, respectively. Within a decade, founder Eva Moskowitz plans to operate 100 Success Academy schools.
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