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At Success Academy Harlem 4,

like other schools in the Success Academy network,

educators demand excellence and orderliness from students.

Photogfraph: Nicole Bengiveno

The New York Times

At Success Academy Charter Schools,

High Scores and Polarizing Tactics

By KATE TAYLOR        NYT        APRIL 6, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/nyregion/
at-success-academy-charter-schools-polarizing-methods-and-superior-results.html

Charter schools

— public schools

that operate outside the normal system —

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/schools-that-work.html

charter school

The charter school movement gained a foothold

in American education two decades ago

partly by asserting that independently run,

publicly financed schools

would outperform traditional public schools

if they were exempted from onerous regulations.

The charter advocates

also promised that unlike traditional schools,

which were allowed to fail without consequence,

charter schools would be

rigorously reviewed and shut down

when they failed to perform.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/
opinion/more-lessons-about-charter-schools.html

Charter schools,

by definition, are publicly funded schools,

free to students and paid for by taxpayers.

They are also subject to public oversight and control;

for example, they have to employ licensed teachers

and administer state-mandated tests,

which private schools do not.

They can also be closed by districts

for underperformance.

However, also by definition,

charter schools maintain a measure of independence

from public oversight.

They have freedom

from certain district and union rules;

for example,

they can have a longer school year or school day,

require uniforms,

or incorporate different topics in the curriculum.

They are also governed

by privately appointed boards.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/15/
470376273/bernie-sanders-says-he-opposes-private-charter-schools-what-does-that-mean

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/
charter-schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Charter_schools_in_the_United_States

2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/
nyregion/joseph-h-reich-dead.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/
school-closures-students-charter-schools-home-schooling-rochester - August 27, 2024

2023

https://www.propublica.org/article/
nyc-schools-success-academy-911-mental-health - May 23, 2023

2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/08/
674741135/teachers-in-chicagos-charter-schools-go-on-strike-
and-troubled-for-profit-colleg

2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/
opinion/sunday/who-needs-charters-
when-you-have-public-schools-like-these.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/01/03/
506585375/5-education-stories-to-watch-in-2017

2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/
opinion/sunday/schools-that-work.html

2015

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/07/
412304594/beyond-college-ready-top-charter-schools-support-graduates-in-college

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
opinion/sunday/inside-a-charter-school.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/nyregion/
at-success-academy-charter-schools-polarizing-methods-and-superior-results.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/
education/charter-school-hailed-by-bush-ended-in-ruin.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/
education/fewer-top-graduates-want-to-join-teach-for-america.html

2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/
opinion/sunday/albert-shanker-the-original-charter-school-visionary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/nyregion/
charters-public-schools-and-a-chasm-between.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/us/
a-walmart-fortune-spreading-charter-schools.html

2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/
opinion/thinking-sensibly-about-charter-schools.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/
opinion/better-charter-schools-in-new-york-city.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/
obituaries/carol-f-reich-dead.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/
opinion/more-lessons-about-charter-schools.html

2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/
opinion/l10murray.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/
opinion/05murray.html

2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/
education/17educ.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/
education/27charter.html

charter-school movement

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/
nyregion/joseph-h-reich-dead.html

private charter school

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/15/
470376273/bernie-sanders-says-he-opposes-private-charter-schools-
what-does-that-mean

public middle school

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/nyregion/
charters-public-schools-and-a-chasm-between.html

fourth grade

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/nyregion/
at-success-academy-charter-schools-polarizing-methods-
and-superior-results.html

A seventh-grade class

taught by Carolyn Leuner at KIPP Star College Prep,

a charter school in central Harlem where test scores are rising.

Photograph: Librado Romero

The New York Times

 Harlem, a Test Lab, Splits Over Charter Schools

NYT

2 June 2006

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/
nyregion/02harlem.html

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