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Amid criticism, Moskowitz will introduce new Brooklyn charter | GothamSchools

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Amid criticism, Moskowitz will introduce new Brooklyn charter

Success Charter Network head Eva Moskowitz is making her first public appearance in Brownstone Brooklyn—and as usual, she will be joined by protesters.

Moskowitz is holding an informational session tomorrow to detail her plans for a new charter school that is likely to open in the affluent Cobble Hill neighborhood next year. Most of tomorrow’s protesters are parents from the neighborhood, who say they are planning to attend the meeting to tell Moskowitz that the Success Charter Network is not wanted there.

But opposition is also starting to rise from another group: school leaders in the Baltic Street building where the city has proposed to house the new school. The principals say they are nervous that the charter school’s