NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools
New York City’s Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November.
The delay sets up yet another clash between the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy, the city’s largest charter network, and one of the mayor’s sharpest critics.
For weeks, Ms. Moskowitz has said it was critical that the city make space proposals by Friday for her new middle schools, which she plans to open in 2018, so that the proposals could be approved by the Panel for Educational Policy at its Nov. 28 meeting. She has argued that there is more than enough space available in school buildings in the districts where she is proposing to open her schools...