Success Academy Charter School
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Success Academy Harlem 1, one of several schools run by Success Academy
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| Location | |
| 95 Pine Street, New York, N.Y. 10005 (Main office) | |
| Coordinates | 40°42′16.3″N 74°00′22.5″W / 40.704528°N 74.006250°WCoordinates: 40°42′16.3″N 74°00′22.5″W / 40.704528°N 74.006250°W |
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| School type | Public charter with public & private funds |
| Founder | Eva S. Moskowitz et al. |
| Status | Open |
| Authorizer | Charter Schools Institute, State University of New York (most schools) |
| Chief Executive Officer | Eva Moskowitz |
| Staff | Over 1,000 (all positions) in 2014 |
| Grades | K–9 |
| Gender | Both |
| Language | English (U.S.) |
| Schedule | Mid-August to mid-June |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Orange and blue (logo and uniforms) |
| Athletics | Soccer, Track & Field, Cross Country, Basketball |
| Tuition | Free |
| Communities served | various New York City neighborhoods |
| Website | www |
Success Academy Charter Schools, originally Harlem Success Academy, is a charter school operator of 34 public charter schools in New York City. Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member for the Upper East Side, is its founder.
Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz opened the first Success school, the Harlem Success Academy, in 2006. She subsequently opened more schools in Harlem, and then schools in other New York City neighborhoods. As of mid 2015 the network has 9,000 students in schools in every NYC borough except Staten Island.
In February 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to stop the city's former policy of providing free space in public school buildings to charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run, and to evict those schools, including three Success Academy schools already in those buildings. The decision was reversed in April after New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo stepped into the controversy. The city ended up finding space for three Success Academy schools.
For the 2014–15 school year there were over 22,000 applications for 2,688 slots. Two documentary films, The Lottery and Waiting for "Superman", record the intense desire of parents to enroll their children in Success Academy and charter schools like Success Academy.
In 2015-16, the school became embroiled in a conflict with New York City's Department of Education concerning its Pre-Kindergarten program. The city wanted the Academy to sign the contract it requires of all pre-K providers in order to receive city funding for the program, but Success Academy refused to do so, taking the position that since its schools were chartered by the University of the State of New York – the overarching institution for New York State's Department of Education – it, and not the city, had the legal power of oversight, and not the city. Therefore, Success Academy was not required to sign the city's contract, and, indeed, was legally forbidden to do so. It was supported in this position by the New York City Charter School Center, even though all 13 other charter schools in the city which provide Pre-K had signed the contract. As a result of this disagreement, the city has not paid Success Academy for its Pre-K program – which involves 72 children – and Success has threatened to shut it down. The amount of money involved is $720,000 - $780,000.
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