Posted on 12/11/2014 6:59:08 AM PST by Academiadotorg
In my youth, cheerleaders had a chant that went, S-u-c-c-e-s-s, thats the way you spell success. I dont know that you would hear that battle cry anymore, because not many public schools teach spelling. One that does has worked the word success into its title, appropriately, as it turns out.
The Success Academy opened in Harlem in 2006 with 160 students. It is now a chain of charter schools (32) with an enrollment of 9,000. It is also in the top one percent in the state of New York in math. History, science and literature also figure prominently in the schools curricula and students also learn how to play chess in their free time.
So, naturally, the mayor of New York and the teachers unions would like to close the schools down, and nearly did shut down three of them until thousands of parents protested. I wasnt such a libertarian before I got into government but since I have been, my libertarian instincts have come out, Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz said on Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Public education will make a libertarian out of anyone, AEI resident scholar Frederick M. Hess, who hosted the event Moskowitz spoke at, said sympathetically.
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Which automatically puts her at the top of the NEA’s hit list!
My daughter teaches at a charter school. The teachers unions are engaged in a groin-kicking, behind the scenes guerilla war to try and shut them all down.
yes it has
it’s starting to show up on stage too
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