Success Academy, a chain of high performing charter schools in New York City, is defending one of its teachers, who was filmed tearing up schoolwork and harshly speaking to a first grade for not answering a math question correctly.
NEW YORK—With the State University of New York’s approval of 14 new Success Academy schools Wednesday, the biggest charter school network in the city is poised to get even bigger, with the new schools opening in the next two years.
NEW YORK—In a dramatic turnabout from the Bloomberg administration the city’s Department of Education withdrew nine approved plans for school co-locations Thursday.