Eva Moskowitz

It Can Be Done: DOE Reverses Decision to Co-Locate Thriving Brownsville High School

So, remember how in December we concluded that there's nothing that a public school can do to successfully fight off co-locations with other schools? Well, Brownsville Academy High School proved us wrong. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's reign, rulings on co-location proposals seem to be guided by ... More >>

Brooklyn Community Rallies to Protect Beloved Arts School From Co-location

If it's not broken, and it actually works pretty well, let's throw a charter school in there and hope it doesn't break. That seems to be the philosophy the Department of Education is going with in its proposal to co-locate the newly proposed K-5 Success Academy Charter School Brooklyn 5 at K265 in ... More >>

Will Mayor Ray Kelly Watch Over Us?

Does the commish think he can stop-and-frisk the public schools into shape?

Bloomberg and Walcott Are School Dropouts

Standardized tests 'tried-and-untrue' method of measuring students' learning

Bloomberg Schools Flunk the Constitution

We're raising a generation that doesn't know its rights

Class Struggles at a Bronx Charter School

Bronx Success Academy 1 may not quiet its critics, but it's doing a good job making its kids shut up and pay attention

This Week in the Voice: The Success of Bronx Success Academy 1

​This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher examines the methods of the Success Charter Network and its polarizing CEO Eva Moskowitz. The Bronx Success Academy features "a half-time psychologist, a speech therapist, a music instructor, and even a chess teacher." Would you believe that it's workin ... More >>

Eva Moskowitz Scores Successes at Raucous School Meeting Last Night

​Eva Moskowitz's Success Charter Network, subject of our cover story this week, won several major victories at last night's meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy. The PEP voted to allow Harlem Success Academy 1 to expand in its current home alongside P.S. 149 (Sojourner Turth) next year, ... More >>

Many, Many Children Left Behind in Ed Doc, The Lottery

State Senate Votes to More Than Double Number of Charter Schools

​The State Senate voted yesterday to raise the number of charter schools in the state to 460 from 200. Majority Leader John Sampson supported the legislation and, despite significant Democratic resistance, led it to a surprisingly bipartisan victory (45-15). More than doubling the number of c ... More >>

U. Tube: Student Teachers Learn From Video Training

School Daze: Charter Break-in at Harlem P.S.

Back in February, Mayor Bloomberg threatened that there could be "riots in the streets" if mayoral control isn't renewed in Albany, and in today's Daily News, Juan Gonzalez reports the first mini-riot outbreak.The commotion came at P.S. 123 where yesterday workers showed up unannounced and started r ... More >>

Bloomberg and the Teachers' Union

It's (almost) summertime, and the Mayor's campaigning is easy. So easy, he can roll over the union this time—and should.

Mayor, UFT Head Getting Cozy; Whither Education Reform?

If you've read today Wayne Barrett story on Mayor Bloomberg's tendency to cut deals with the teacher's union, and why (if he's serious about school reform) he should cut it out, you may be interested in what PolitickerNY's Jason Horowitz reports about Bloomberg's mayoral control renewal campaign: he ... More >>

Harlem's School Choice

Parents and the city face off over whether to rescue a failing school—or replace it

Losing Track of Dropouts—and Successes—in New York City Schools

DOE, City Council and Unions all fail to keep tabs on when NYC schools fail - or succede.

No Wafer for Rudy

Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God

Talk Ain't Cheap

The Nightlife Summit didn't solve every club owner's problems, but it's an overdue start

Letters

Learning Why We're Americans

Schools fail the future when they don't teach individual liberties in the Constitution

Is City Traffic Killing Your Love Life?

Party's Over

Bars and clubs get raided by MARCH; fun ends in NYC forever.

Council Orgy

Erasing term limits and contribution caps amid a speaker battle

Council Hopefuls Get a Cameo

Council Cliffhanger

West Side Story

Visiting the Eva Empire

Turnout Burnout

Hunting the Magic Number

In council races around town, it's a tale of two cities

Testing Bloomberg and Klein

Test scores rising, but what of the different black and white diplomas and other lost kids?

Close-Up on Kips Bay

Close-Up on Turtle Bay

Close-Up on Tudor City

Bloomberg's Accountability?

Eva Moskowitz's prescription: giving kids a fighting chance well before the third grade

Letters

A Paucity of Choices

Few Challengers, and Fewer Issues, in Council Races

New York's Bush League Democrats

From Hillary on Down, Pro-War Pols Expect to Pay No Price

Close-up on Peter Cooper Village

Power to the People

Lower East Side Residents Oppose Con Ed's Expansion Plan